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BINDING  LIST  JUL  2     1924. 


(LONDON  COUNTY   COUNCIL.  J 


SURVEY   OF   LONDON 


ISSUED    BY    THE    JOINT    PUBLISHING    COMMITTEE 

REPRESENTING     THE    LONDON    COUNTY    COUNCIL 

AND    THE    LONDON    SURVEY    COMMITTEE 

UNDER    THE    GENERAL    EDITORSHIP    OF 

SIR   JAMES   BIRD  (for  the  Council] 
PHILIP   NORMAN   (for  the  Survey  Committee] 


VOLUME   VII 


THE  PARISH  OF  CHELSEA  (PART  III)         |  «  a  s-  7 


\n  • 


PUBLISHED   FOR  THE  LONDON   COUNTY  COUNCIL,  BY  B.  T.  BATSFORD,  LTD., 

94,  HIGH  HOLBORN,  LONDON. 


v.7 


THE  OLD  CHURCH,  CHELSEA,  BEING 
THE  SEVENTH  VOLUME  OF  THE 
SURVEY  OF  LONDON.  BY  WALTER 
H.  GODFREY,  F.S.A.,  MEMBER  OF 
THE  LONDON  SURVEY  COMMITTEE 


JOINT  Pt 'BUSHING  COMMITTEE  REPRESENTING  THE  LONDON  COl'NTY 
COINCII,  AM)  THK  LONDON  Sl'KVF.Y  COMMITTEE. 


Chairman. 
'E.  L.  MEINERTZHAGEN. 


M embers  appointed  by  the  Council. 

GRANVILLE-SMITH,  R.  W.  MEINERTZHAGEN,  E.  L. 

JOHNSON,  W.  C.  TAYLOR,  ANDREW  T. 


Members  appointed  by  the  London  Survey  Committee. 

GODFKKY,  WALTER  H.  NORMAN,  PHILIP. 

LOVELL,  PERCY. 


IV 


MEMBERS  OF  THE  LONDON  SURVEY  COMMITTEE  DURING  THE 
PERIOD   OF  THE  WORK. 

THE  FORMER  PRESIDENTS  OF  THE  COMMITTEE  WERE — 

THE  LATE  LORD   LEIGHTON,  P.R.A. 

THE  LATE  RT.  HON.  AND  RT.  REV.  DR.  CREIGHTON,  LORD  BISHOP  OF  LONDON. 

President. 
THE  RT.  HON.  THE  EARL  CURZON  OF  KEDLESTON,  K.G.,  G.C.S.I.,  G.C.I.E.,  F.R.S. 


The   Rt.    Hon.    LORD   ABER- 

DARE,    Of    DUFFRYN,    D.L. 

Miss  E.  J.  ADAMS. 

The  BOARD  OF  AGRICULTURE. 

The  SOCIETY  OF  ANTIQUARIES 

OF  LONDON 

WILLIAM  SUMNER  APPLETON. 
The   ROYAL   INSTITUTE  OF 

BRITISH   ARCHITECTS. 
The  SOCIETY  OF  ARCHITECTS. 
ARCHITECTURAL  ASSOCIATION. 
The  ATHEN^UM. 
JOHN  AVERY,  F.C.A.,  F.S.S. 

E.  BURRELL  BAGGALLAY. 
J.  S.  BAINES. 

F.  A.  BARRETT. 
BOYLSTON  A.  BEAL. 
J.  F.  ADAMS  BECK. 

The  BERMONDSEY  PUBLIC  LI- 
BRARIES. 

The  Ven.  ARCHDEACON 
HENRY  E.  J.  BEVAN. 

HENRY  FORBES  BIGELOW. 

ARTHUR  L.  BILHAM. 

HARRY  W.  BIRKS.         [BRARY. 

BIRMINGHAM      CENTRAL    Li- 

The  BISHOPSGATE  INSTITUTE. 

REGINALD  BLUNT. 

ARTHUR  BONNER,  F.S.A. 

E.  W.  BROOKS. 

A.  HERVE  BROWNING. 

The  WORSHIPFUL  COMPANY 
OF  CARPENTERS. 

Miss  A.  G.  E.  CARTHEW. 

W.  J.  CHECKLEY. 

The  CHELSEA  BOOK  CLUB. 

The  CHELSEA  ELECTRICITY 
SUPPLY  Co. 


Honorary  Members. 

TheCHELSEAPuBLIC  LlBRARY. 

CHISWICK  PUBLIC  LIBRARY. 
Sir  CYRIL  S.  COBB,   K.B.E., 

M.V.O.,  M.P. 

E.  C.  COLQUHOUN.       [BRARY. 
COLUMBIA     UNIVERSITY     Li- 
The  CONSTITUTIONAL  CLUB. 
WILLIAM  W.  CORDINGLEY. 
LADY  COURTNEY. 
The  Rt.   Hon.   the  EARL  OF 

CRAWFORD,  F.S.A. 
The    Most    Hon.    the    MAR- 
QUESS OF  CREWE,   K.G. 
W.    E.    VERNON    CROMPTON, 

F.R.I.B.A. 

CROYDON  PUBLIC  LIBRARY. 
S.  HORACE  DENMAN. 
GEORGE    H.    DUCKWORTH, 

C.B.,  F.S.A. 

The  BOARD  OF  EDUCATION. 
EUSTACE  ERLEBACH. 
Major  C.  H.  FENNELL. 
The    Rt.    Hon.    the    EARL 

FERRERS,  F.S.A. 
LENNARD  W.  FORSYTH. 
Sir  GEORGE  JAMES  FRAMPTON, 

R.A.,  F.S.A. 

FULHAM  PUBLIC  LIBRARY. 
Miss  AGNES  GARRETT. 
ERNEST  G.  GILLICK. 
RICHARD  L.  GIVEEN. 
W.  S.  GODFREY.     [K.C.V.O. 
Sir  RICKMAN  J.  GODLEE,  BT., 
The    GOLDSMITHS'    LIBRARY, 

UNIVERSITY  OF  LONDON. 
Sir  ALBERT  GRAY,K.C.B.,K.C. 
Miss  I.  I.  GREAVES. 
HUBERT  J.  GREENWOOD,  J.P. 


The  late  Maj.-Gen.  Sir  COLE- 
RIDGE GROVE,  K.C.B. 

The  GUILDHALL  LIBRARY. 

HACKNEY  PUBLIC  LIBRARY. 

RICHARD  WALDEN  HALE. 

EDWIN  T.  HALL,  F.R.I.B.A. 

The  HAMMERSMITH  CENTRAL 
LIBRARY. 

W.  H.  HARRISON,  F.R.I.B.A. 

T.  FRANK  HAWKES. 

ARTHUR  F.  HILL. 

Sir    SAMUEL    HOARE,    BT., 
C.M.G.,  M.P. 

T.  F.  HOBSON,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 

VICTOR  TYLSTON  HODGSON. 

J.  J.  HOLDSWORTH. 

CHARLES  H.  HOPWOOD, F.S.A. 

E.   J.   HORNIMAN,   J.P. 

Miss  Lois  L.  HOWE. 

CONSTANT  HUNTINGTON. 

Maj.  DOUGLAS  ILLINGWORTH. 

Mrs.  ILLINGWORTH  ILLING- 
WORTH. 

Miss  EDITH  F.  INDERWICK. 

Rt.  Hon.  VISCOUNT  IVEAGH, 
K.P.,  G.C.V.O.,  F.R.S. 

The  late  EDWARD  TYRREL 
JAQUES. 

GILBERT  JENKINS. 

PHILIP  M.  JOHNSTON,  F.S.A., 
F.R.I.B.A. 

C.   H.    F.    KlNDERMAN. 

JAMES  E.  KING,  M.A.,  F.S.A., 
F.R.  HIST.  S. 

C.    L.     KlNGSFORD. 

LADY  LAURENCE. 
G.  C.  LAWSON. 
LADY   LECONFIELD. 


v 


Honorary  Members  and  Subscribers — continued. 


The   Rt.   Hon.   LORD   LEVKR- 

HUI.MI  ,  F.R.G.S. 
H.  \V.   L,:\V.K,  F.S.A. 
OWEN  C.  LITTLE. 
The   LONDON   LIBRARY. 
Dr.  G.  B.  LONGSTAI  i . 
MARY  COUNTESS  OF  LOVELACE. 
M  \\CHKSTER  PUBLIC  LIBRARY. 
The  MANCHESTER  SOCIETY  01 

ARCHITECTS. 

\\II.I.1AM     McGREGOR. 

Mrs.  JOHN  MARKOE. 

Miss  B.  A.  MEINERTZHAGEN. 

The    METROPOLITAN    PUBLIC 

GARDENS  ASSOCIATION. 
Mrs.  M.  H.  MOLLER. 
G.  VAUGHAN  MORGAN. 
Major  K.  VAUGHAN  MORGAN. 
Mrs.  JOHN  H.  MORRISON. 
JOHN  MURRAY,  F.R.I.B.A. 
JAMES  A.  NELSON. 
NEW  YORK  PUBLIC  LIBRARY. 
Mrs.  RICHARD  NICHOLSON. 
R.  C.  NORMAN. 


C.  R.  ASHBEE,  M.A. 
*OSWALD  BARRON,  F.S.A. 
*A.  H.  BLAKE,  M.A. 
*J.  W.  BLOE. 
*W.    W.    BRAINES,    B.A. 

(Lend.). 

*A.  E.  BULLOCK,  A.R.I.B.A. 

G.    H.    C  KETTLE. 

*A.  W.  CLAPHAM,  F.S.A. 
GEORGE    CLINCH,    F.G.S., 

F.S.A.  (Scot.). 
A.  O.  COLLARD,  F.R.I.B.A. 
WILLIAM  DODDINGTON. 
*H.  W.  FINCHAM,  F.S.A. 
MATT.  GARBUTT,  F.R.I.B.A. 
Mrs.    ERNEST   GODMAN, 

A.R.E. 

T.  FRANK  GREEN,  A.R.I.B.A 
EDWIN  GUNN,  A.R.I.B.A. 
OSBORN  C.  HILLS,  F.R.I.B.A 
PHILIP  S.  HUDSON,  A.R.I.B.A, 

*  Denotes  those  who  have 

vi 


Mr-.   ROBERT  NORMAN. 

NOTTINGHAM  SCHOOL  OK  ART. 

The  Rev.  J.  P.  NOYES. 

VERB  L.  OLIVER. 

OXFORD  AND  CAMBRIDGE  C 

F.  W.  PETERS.          [DELPHIA. 

The  FREE  LIBRARY  OF  PHILA- 

Mrs.  \Y.  WILTON  PHIPPS. 

F.  W.  PLAT.. 

ARNOLD  DANVERS  POWER. 

Sir  D'ARCY  POWER,  K.B.E. 

F.  W.  PROCTER. 

The  PUBLIC  RECORD  OFFICE. 

COLIN  E.  READER. 

Miss  JULIET  RECKITT. 

The  REFORM  CLUB. 

The  VISCOUNTESS  RHONDDA. 

Mrs.  F.  L.  W.  RICHARDSON. 

SHOREDITCH  PUBLIC  LIBRARY. 

SIGN  COLLEGE. 

Mrs.  VERNON  SMITH. 

A.  G.  SNELGROVE. 

W.  J.  SONGHURST. 

H.    C.    SOTHERAN. 

Active  Members. 
T.  GORDON  JACKSON,  Licen- 
tiate R.I.B.A. 
MAX  JUDGE. 
*P.  K.  KIPPS,  A.R.I.B.A. 

W.  B.   LlEBERT. 

GILBERT  H.  LOVEGROVE, 
F.R.I.B.A. 

*ERNEST    A.    MANN,    Licen- 
tiate R.I.B.A. 

W.  MONK,  R.E. 

"SYDNEY  NEWCOMBE. 

*E.  C.  NISBET,  Lie.  R.I.B.A. 

*ROBERT  PEARSALL. 

HARRY  PRINCE,  A.R.I.B.A. 

ERNEST  RAILTON. 

JOHN  RAVENSHAW. 

*FRANCIS  W.  READER. 

*W.  HOWARD  RUDDLE. 

JOSEPH  SEDDON. 

*FRANCIS  R.  TAYLOR,  Licen- 
tiate R.I.B.A. 


SOUTH WARK  PUBLIC  LIBRARY. 
Rt.  Hon.  LORD  STERNDALE. 
The    STOKE    NEWINGTON 

PUBLIC  LIBRARY. 
R.  T.  D.  STONEHAM. 
R.  CLIPSTON  STURGIS. 
T.  SLINGSBY  TANNER. 
J.  F.  TUDSBERY. 
1 1  \MILTON  H.  TURNER. 
LIUIS  HUTU  WALTERS. 
Sir  SAMUEL  WARING. 
A.  GRAYSTON  WARREN. 
The   LIBRARY   OF   CONGRESS, 

WASHINGTON. 

WEST  HAM  PUBLIC  LIBRARY. 
Mrs.  WESTLAKE. 
The    CITY    OF    WESTMINSTER 

PUBLIC  LIBRARIES. 
Mr,.  WHARRIE. 
J.  BARRINGTON  WHITE. 
WHITELANDS  COLLEGE. 
Miss  M.  J.  WILDE. 
JOHN  E.  YERBURY. 
KEITH  D.  YOUNG,  F.R.I.B.A. 


*GEORGE  TROTMAN,  M.S.A. 
Miss  E.  M.  B.  WARREN. 
*W.  A.  WEBB,  A.R.I.B.A. 
MORTIMER  WHEELER,  D.LiTT. 
W.  WONNACOTT,  A.R.I.B.A. 
*E.  L.  WRATTEN,  A.R.I.B.A. 
*EDWARD  YATES. 
*W.  PLOMER  YOUNG. 
*PHILIP     NORMAN,     F.S.A., 

LL.D.,    Hon.    Editor  of 

the  Committee. 
*WALTER  H.  GODFREY,  F.S.A. 

Hon.  Assist.  Editor  of  the 

Committee. 

E.    L.    MEtNERTZHAGEN,    J.P., 

Hon.    Treasurer     of    the 
Committee. 

*PERCY  W.  LOVELL,  B.A., 
A.R.I.B.A.,  Secretary  of 
the  Committee,  27  Abing- 
don  Street,  S.W.  i. 


co-operated  in  the  production  of  the  present  volume. 


CONTENTS 

GENERAL   TITLE   PAGE 

SPECIAL  TITLE  PAGE 

MEMBERS   OF  THE   JOINT  PUBLISHING   COMMITTEE 

MEMBERS   OF  THE   LONDON   SURVEY  COMMITTEE  - 

DESCRIPTION  OF  THE  PLATES      - 

PREFACE 

THE   SURVEY  OF  CHELSEA  OLD   CHURCH: 

I.  Description  of  the  Church  - 
II.  The  Church  Fittings  - 

III.  Monuments  within  the  Church 

IV.  Monuments  in  the  Churchyard 

APPENDIX 

List  of  Rectors,  and  Incumbents  of  the  Old  Church 

INDEX  TO  NAMES     - 


PAGE 

i 

iii 
iv 

v 

ix 

-      xiv 


I 
5 

14 

62 


84 

87 


Vll 


DESCRIPTION   OF  THE  PLATES 


PLATE 

1 .  The  Old  Church  from  the  South      (page  xvi) 

2.  Exterior  from  the  South-East   - 

3.  Exterior  from  the  South  - 

4.  The  Tower  from  Church  Street 

5.  Exterior  of  Lawrence  Chapel 

6.  Window  of  Lawrence  Chapel 

7.  Window  of  Lawrence  Chapel 

8.  North  Wall  of  Nave 

9.  Interior,  looking  East 

10.  Chancel 

11.  Lawrence  Chapel,  Interior 

12.  Window  of  Lawrence  Chapel 

13.  Nave,  looking  West 

14.  Arch  into  More  Chapel 

15.  Plan 

1 6.  North  and  East  Elevations 

17.  Sotfth  and  West  Elevations 

1 8.  Section 

19.  Capitals  of  Responds  in  More  Chapel 


20.  Capital  of  Eastern  Respond  in  More  Chapel 

21.  Capital  of  Western  Respond  in  More  Chapel 

22.  Staircase,  North  of  Tower 

23.  (a)  Ashburnham  Bell 
(b)  Communion  Table 

24.  Communion  Rails 

25.  Font 

26.  Font 

27.  Helm  (Dacre)  in  More  Chapel  - 

28.  Inscription  to  Ringers  in  Tower 

29.  Pulpit 

30.  Pulpit 

31.  Weather  Vane 

32.  Monuments  on  East  and  North  Walls  of  Chancel 

33.  Wall  Tablet  to  Lucy  Smith  and  Anne  Wilton 

34.  Monument  to  Thomas  Hungerford 


Drawn  by  Edmund  L.  Wratten. 

Photograph  by  Francis  R.  Taylor. 

Photograph  by  George  Trotman. 

Photograph  by  Francis  R.  Taylor. 

Photograph. 

Measured  Drawing  by  W.  Arthur 

Webb. 

Photograph  by  Francis  R.  Taylor. 
Photograph. 

Photograph  by  H.  W.  Fincham. 
Photograph  by  Francis  R.  Taylor. 
Photograph  by  Francis  R.  Taylor. 
Photograph  by  W.  Plomer  Young. 
Photograph  by  Francis  R.  Taylor. 
Photograph  by  Edward  Yates. 
Measured  Drawing  by  Francis  R. 

Taylor. 
Measured  Drawings  by  Francis  R. 

Taylor. 
Measured  Drawings  by  Francis  R. 

Taylor. 
Measured  Drawing  by  Francis  R. 

Taylor. 
Photographs  by  (a)  Edward  Yates, 

(b)  W.  Plomer  Young,  (c)  W. 

Plomer  Young. 
Photograph  by  A.  H.  Blake. 
Photograph  by  Francis  R.  Taylor. 
Photograph  by  Francis  R.  Taylor. 
Photograph  by  Edward  Yates. 
Photograph  by  W.  Plomer  Young. 
Photograph  by  Francis  R.  Taylor. 
Photograph  by  Francis  R.  Taylor. 
Measured     Drawing     by     E.     R. 

Silver. 

Photograph  by  Edward  Yates. 
Photograph  by  Edward  Yates. 
Photograph  by  Edward  Yates. 
Measured  Drawing  by  (the  late) 

W.  H.  Ruddle. 

Photograph  by  Edward  Yates. 
Photograph  by  Francis  R.  Taylor. 
Photograph  by  Edward  Yates. 
Photograph  by  A.  H.  Blake. 


IX 


PI.  A  1  I 

;;.     Monument  to  Thomas  Hongerford 

36.  Monument  to  Maria  Buckby 

37.  Monument  to  Maria  Buckby 

38.  The  Littleton  Monument 

39.  Tomb  of  Edmund,  Lord  Bray  - 

40.  Tomb  of  Edmund,  Lord  Bray  - 

41.  Tomb  of  Richard  Jervoise 

42.  Tomb  of  Richard  Jervoise,  from  a  drawing  in  the 

Collection  of  Sir  Edward  Coates,  Bt. 

43.  Tomb  of  Richard  Jervoise 

44.  Tablets  to  Dr.  Baldwin  Hamey  and  Ralph  Palmer 

45.  Tomb  of  Sir  Thomas  More 

46.  Tablet  to  Elizabeth  Stewart 

47.  Tablet  to  Elizabeth  Stewart 

4S.     Tablet  to  Sir  John  Lawrence    - 

49.  Tablet  to  Sir  John  Lawrence    - 

50.  Monument  of  Thomas  Lawrence       - 

5 1 .  Monument  of  Thomas  Lawrence 

52.  Monument  of  Sara  Colvile 
'53.     Monument  of  Sara  Colvile 

54.  Tomb  of  Sir  Robert  Stanley 

55.  Busts  of  Sir  Robert  Stanley  and  Henrietta 

56.  Tomb  of  Sir  Robert  Stanley     - 

57.  Brass  from  Tomb  of  Sir  Arthur  Gorges   (with 

Coat  of  Arms)     - 

58.  Brass  from  Tomb  of  Sir  Arthur  Gorges 

59.  The  Gorges  Tomb,  from  a  drawing  in  the  Chelsea 

Public  Library    - 

60.  Inscription  from  the  Tomb  of  Arthur  Gorges 

61.  Part  of  Monument  to  the  Duchess  of  Northum- 

berland -        - 

62.  Inscription  on  Tomb  of  the  Duchess  of  Northum- 

berland     -  -        - 

63.  The  Duchess  of  Northumberland  and  her  Daugh- 

ters (Brass)  - 

of.     The  Northumberland  Monument,  from  a  draw- 
ing in  the  Collection  of  Sir  Edward  Coates,  Bt. 
65.     The  Northumberland  Tomb,  from  the  Lansdowne 
MSS.    (Below  is  the  Dacre  Tomb.) 


ured  Drawing  by  Sydney  A. 

\c\vcombe. 

Photograph  by  Arthur  S.  Long. 
Measured     Drawing    by    Sydney 

Newcombe. 
Measured    Drawing    by    Liflford 

Claydon. 

Photograph  by  Edward  Yates. 
Measured  Drawing  by  Miss  E.  G. 

Cooke. 
Photograph  by  H.  W.  Fincham. 


Measured     Drawing    by    A.     E. 

Bullock. 

Photograph  by  Arthur  S.  Long. 
Photograph  by  Edward  Yates. 
Photograph  by  H.  W.  Fincham. 
Measured  Drawing  by  W.  Arthur 

Webb. 

Photograph  by  Edward  Yates. 
Measured    Drawing    by    P.     K. 

Kipps. 

Photograph  by  A.  H.  Blake. 
Measured     Drawing    by    J.     H. 

.White. 

Photograph  by  Edward  Yates.  . 
Measured    Drawing    by    A.    E. 

Bullock. 

Photograph  by  A.  H.  Blake. 
Photographs  by  H.  W.  Fincham. 
Measured  Drawing  by  Cecil  Smith. 

Photograph  by  H.  W.  Fincham. 
Photograph  of  a  rubbing. 
Photograph  by   London  County 

Council 
Photograph  by  Edward  Yates. 

Photograph  by  Francis  R.  Taylor. 
Photograph  by  H.  W.  Fincham. 
Photograph  by  W:  Plomer  Young. 


PLATE 

66.  The  Monument  of  th'e  Duchess  of  Northumber- 

land 

67.  Tablet  to  Sir  William  Milman  - 

68.  Tablet  to  Sir  William  Milman  - 

69.  Tablet  to  Henry  and  Elizabeth  Powell 

70.  Tablet  to  Henry  and  Elizabeth  Powell 

71.  Tablet  to  James  Buck 

72.  Iron  Railing  to  the  Cheyne  Monument 

73.  Monument  to  Lady  Jane  Cheyne 

74.  Effigy  of  Lady  Jane  Cheyne      - 

75.  Monument  to  Lady  Jane  Cheyne 

76.  Tablet  to  Richard  Guilford 

77.  The  Hamilton  Tablet 

78.  The  Hamilton  Tablet 

79.  Monument  to  Lord  and  Lady  Dacre 

80.  Detail  of  Central  Arch  in  Dacre  Tomb 

81.  Spandrils  from  the  Dacre  Tomb  (a),  (b) 

82.  Iron  Railings  to  the  Dacre  Tomb 

83.  Drawing  of  the  Dacre  Tomb,  in  the  Collection  of 

Sir  Edward  Coates,  Bt. 

84.  Monument  to  Lord  and  Lady  Dacre 

85.  Tablet  to  Hester  Hill 

86.  Tablet  to  Hester  Hill 

87.  Monuments  to  William  Anderson  and  Philip  Miller 

88.  Monument  to  Sir  Hans  Sloane 


Measured  Drawing  by  R.  Pearsall. 
Photograph  by  Arthur  S.  Long. 
Measured  Drawing  by  Ernest  A. 

Mann. 

Photograph  by  H.  W.  Fincham. 
Measured    Drawing    by    E.    C. 

Nisbet. 

Photograph  by  Francis  R.  Taylor. 
Photograph  by  W.  Plomer  Young. 
Photograph  by  Arthur  S.  Long. 
Photograph  by  A.  H.  Blake. 
Measured   Drawing   by  Geoffrey 

Clark  and  Eric  R.  Jarrett. 
Measured  Drawing  by  Miss  E.  G. 

Cooke. 

Photograph  by  George  Trotman. 
Measured  Drawing  by  Sydney  A. 

Newcombe. 

Photograph  'by  Francis  R.  Taylor. 
Photograph  by  A.  H.  Blake. 
Photographs  by  W.  Plomer  Young. 
Photograph  by  W.  Plomer  Young. 


Measured     Drawing    by    P.     K. 

Kipps. 

Photograph  by  Arthur  S.  Long. 
Measured  Drawing  by  H.  St.  John 

Harrison. 
Photograph. 
Photograph  by  Edward  Yates. 


ILLUSTRATIONS    IN    THE    TEXT 

1.  Plan  of  the  Original  Gallery 

2.  Plan  of  the  Tombs  in  the  Churchyard  - 


PAGE 

8 
62 


HERALDIC    ILLUSTRATIONS 


1.  MORE 

2.  WAVER     - 


Argent,  a  cheveron  engrailed  between  three 
moor-cocks  sable,  crests  and  legs  gules. 

Argent,  on  a  fess  sable  three  scallops  or  impaled 
with  I  &  4,  ermine  a  cheveron  sable,  2  &  3,  on 
a  fess  sable  three  crowns  or. 


XI 


7- 
8. 


BATEMAN 

111  NCI.RFORD 


HI  CKBY 
BRAY 

[ERVOISE 

JKKVOIM 


y.     1 1  \\IFY 


10.  PALMER 

11.  STF.WART 


12.  LAWRKN'CE 

13.  MERCHANT  ADVENTURERS 


14.  COLVILE 

15.  STANLEY 

1 6.  GORGES  (ancient) 

„          (modern) 

17.  GUILDFORD- 

18.  MI  I.MAN 

19.  POWELL 

20.  BfCK 


21.  CHEYNE 

22.  HAMILTON    - 


Three  crescents  each  having  a  mulct  (properly 
star)  bens  ecu  the  horns. 

Quarterly  i  &  4,  sable,  two  bars  argent,  in  chief 
three  plate^  (Heytesbury)  ;  2  &  3,  Party  pale- 
\\ise  indented  gules  and  vert,  a  cheveron  or 
(Hungerford). 

Sable,  a  cheveron  between  three  bucks'  attires  or. 

Argent,  a  cheveron  sable  between  three  bird's 
legs  sable. . 

Sable,  a  cheveron  between  three  eaglets  argent. 

Sable,  a  cheveron  between  three  eaglets  argent 
(Jervoise)  impaling  quarterly  I  &  4,  sable, 
within  a  border  gules,  a  cheveron  between  three 
spear-heads  or,  a  molet  for  difference  on  the 
cheveron  ;  2  &  3,  azure,  three  beacons  burn- 
ing or. 

Gules,  a  fess  or,  between  a  roebuck  or  in  chief, 
and  three  molets  of  six  points  argent  in 
base. 

Argent,  three  palmer's  staves  sable. 

Or,  a  fess  cheeky  argent  and  azure  within  a 
double  tressure  counterflowered  gules  (Stewart) 
impaling  sable,  on  a  cross  between  four  fleurs- 
de-lis  argent  five  pheons  azure. 

Argent,  a  ragged  cross  gules  ;  on  a  chief  azure 
three  leopards'  heads  or. 

Barry  nebuly  argent  and  azure,  a  chief  quar- 
terly gules  and  or,  on  the  1st  &  4th  two 
roses  gules  barbed  vert,  on  the  2nd  &  3rd  a 
leopard  or. 

Azure,  a  lion  argent,  a  label  gules. 

Argent,  on  a  bend  azure  three  stags'  heads 
caboshed  or. 

Lozengy  or  and  azure,  a  cheveron  gules. 

Argent,  a  whirlpool  azure. 

Or,  a  saltire  between  four  martlets  sable. 

Azure,  three  sinister  gauntlets  argent. 

Quarterly  i  &  4,  gules,  a  lion  looking  back  or  ; 
2  &  3  argent,  three  boars'  heads  sable. 

Party  fesswise  nebuly  argent  and  sable,  three 
bucks'  attires  countercolourcd,  on  a  quarter 
azure  a  cup  or. 

Cheeky,  or  and  azure,  a  fess  gttk.r,  frctty 
argent. 

Quarterly  of  four,  I  &  4,  sable,  a  molet  between 
three  cinquefoils  ermine,  2  &  3,  sable,  a  human 
heart  between  three  cinquefoils  ermine  (Hamil- 
ton) impaling  quarterly,  I  &  4,  argent,  a 
lymphad  sable,  2  &  3,  or,  a  lion  sable. 


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23.  SACKVILLE 

24.  DACRE 


25.  LOWFEILD 

26.  BOLNEY 

27.  CULLIFORD  - 

28.  BANKS 

29.  SLOANE 

30.  CHAMBERLAYNE  - 


Quarterly  or  and  gules,  a  bend 

Quarterly  of  twelve,  I,  azure,  three  lions  or 
(Fiennes)  ;  2,  gules,  three  scallops  argent 
(Dacre)  ;  3,  argent,  three  bars  gules,  a  label 
azwri?  (Moulton)  ;  4,  cheeky  or  and  gules 
(Vaux)  ;  5,  azure,  sown  with  fleurs-de-lis  and 
fretty  or  (Morville)  ;  6,  azure,  a  chief  or,  three 
cheverons  interlaced  in  base  (Fitzhugh)  ;  7, 
Barry  of  eight  argent  and  gules  a  fleur-de-lis 
sable  (Staveley)  ;  8,  azure,  a  bend  between 
six  crosslets  or  (Furneaux)  ;  9,  Barry  argent 
and  azure,  on  a  bend  gules  three  martolets  or 
(Grey)  ;  10,  vair,  a  fess  gules  (Marmion)  ;  II, 
or  three  cheverons  gules  a  chief  vair  (St. 
Quintin)  ;  12,  Barry  of  ten  or  and  azure,  an 
eagle  gw/^j  (Gernegan). 

On  a  lozenge,  six  pieces  vert  and  or,  a  bull's  head 
sable  and  two  garbs  on  the  or. 

Or,  in  chief  two  molets  and  in  base  a  crescent 
'  gules. 

Argent,  a  fess  gules  between  three  colts  sable, 
impaling  azure,  a  lion  crowned  between  three 
crosslets  or. 

A  cross  between  four  fleurs-de-lis. 

Gules,  a  sword  in  pale  point  down,  argent,  hilt 
and  pommel,  or,  between  two  boars'  heads 
cut  off  at  the  neck,  or.  On  a  chief  ermine  a 
lion  passant  gules  between  two  mascles  sable. 

Gules  an  inescutcheon  argent  within  an  orle  of 
eight  molets  or. 


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PREFACE 

THi;  subject  of  the  third  volume  of  the  Parish  of  Chelsea  is^a  single 
building,  but  one  that  will  never  fail  to  arouse  the  deep  interest, 
even  the  veneration  of  the  student  of  London.  The  Old  Church 
on  Cheyne  Walk  is  now  within  the  Metropolitan  area,  but  it  still  recalls  a 
period  when  Chelsea  was  a  riverside  village,  albeit  a  village  of  palaces.  '  To 
•  and  to  the  men  and  women  who  dwelt  therein,  the  Church  owes  much 
of  it>  supreme  interest  as  a  human  document  in  brick  and  stone.  The 
-tor)-  of  the  building  and  its  past  worshippers  has  been  eloquently  told  by 
Mr.  Randall  Davies,  son  of  the  Rev.  R.  H.  Davies,  who,  while  incumbent, 
gained  for  the  inhabitants  the  freeholds  of  the  beautiful  chapels  that  stand 
north  and  south  of  the  chancel.  Mr.  Davies's  book  is  generally  recognized 
as  authoritative.  To  it  the  present  volume  is,  we  hope,  a  worthy  sequel,  our 
object  being  to  present  as  far  as  possible  a  full  architectural  account 
of  the  Church,  its  fittings  and  monuments,  'and  thus  to  complete 
the  record.  The  Committee  have  been  engaged  on  work  at  Chelsea  for 
a  number  of  years,  but  a  large  part  of  our  material  has  been  collected 
during  the  past  eighteen  months.  Certain  of  the  earlier  photographs, 
however,  taken  before  the  late  restoration  of  the  Church,  have  been 
included  as  being  more  valuable  for  reference  than  the  views  of  to-day. 
The  intention  expressed  in  a  former  volume  of  including  the  inscriptions  in 
the  burial  grounds  of  the  Royal  Hospital  and  the  Moravians,  and  the 
other  public  burial  places  of  the  Parish,  with  -those  of  the  Churchyard 
in  this  volume  has  had  to  be  laid  aside  because  of  the  increased  cost  of 
printing  and  production.  The  inscriptions  have,  however,  been  all 
collected  and  they  will  be  printed  in  the  fourth  and  concluding  part  of 
the  Survey. 

The  thanks  of  the  Committee  are  due  to  the  Rector  of  Chelsea, 
the  Venerable  Archdeacon  H.  E.  J.  Bevan,  to  the  Rev.  Weston  Henry 
Stewart,  incumbent  of  the  Old  Church,  and  to  Mr.  R.  West,  the  verger 
and  watchful  custodian  of  the  Church's  treasures,  for  the  kindly  assistance 
they  have  i;i\cn.  Acknowledgment  is  also  made  to  the  Trustees  of  the 
Chelsea  Public  Library,  and  to  Mr.  J.  H.  Quinn  in  regard  to  the  valuable 
MS.*  and  other  records  under  their  care  and  for  permission  to  reproduce 
certain  of  the  drawings ;  to  Major  Sir  Edward  F.  Coates,  Bt.,  M.P.,  for 
generously  placing  his  famous  collection  at  the  Committee's  disposal  and 
allowing  reproductions  to  be  made  ;  to  Mr.  Arthur  S.  Long,  of  155  King's 
Road,  for  permission  to  use  a  number  of  his  photographs ;  to  Mr.  Eric  R. 
Jarrett,  A.R.I.B.A.,  and  the  following  students  of  the  Architectural  Associa- 
tion :  Miss  E.  G.  Cooke,  Messrs  E.  R.  Silver,  Geoffrey  Clark,  Cecil  Smith, 
.  White,  A.R.I.B.A.,  Lifford  Claydon,  H.  St.  John  Harrison,  A.R.I.B.A., 

'  Tin-  is  the   first  time  that  any  extensive  use  has  been  made  of  Robert  Chambers' 
t  of  tho  Church  (1816)  recently  acquired  by  the  Chelsea  Library. 


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PREFACE 

and  C.  W.  Fowler,  who  have  furnished  several  of  the  most  interesting  of  the 
measured  drawings  ;  and  to  Mr.  Randall  Davies,  to  whose  labours  every 
student  of  Chelsea  is  indebted  and  to  whom  the  Committee  are  obliged  for 
his  kindness  in  reading  the  proofs  of  the  present  book. 

I  may,  perhaps,  be  permitted  to  add  a  personal  expression  of 
gratitude  to  our  Editor,  Mr.  Philip  Norman,  and  to  those  members  of  the 
Committee  who  have  assisted  in  a  somewhat  arduous  task  and  without  whose 
labours  this  record  could  not  have  been  undertaken  or  completed. 


WALTER  H.   GODFREY. 


I  I    CARTERET  STREET, 

QUEEN  ANNE'S  GATE,   S.W.  i. 


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THE   PARISH   OF  CHELSEA 
THE    OLD   CHURCH 


CHELSEA 


I.— DESCRIPTION    OF    THE    CHURCH 

The  old  church  by  the  riverside  was  the  Parish  Church  of  Chelsea 
until  1819,  when  the  new  Church  of  St.  Luke  was  built,  and  the  old  church 
became  a  Chapel  of  Ease.  Its  original  dedication  was  All  Saints,  but  in  the 
latter  part  of  the  iyth  century  it  became  known  as  St.  Luke's,  a  circumstance 
which  is  associated  with  Dr.  Baldwin  Hamey,  to  whom  the  rector,  Dr. 
Adam  Littleton,  appears  to  have  suggested  this  dedication  in  compliment  to 
the  doctor's  profession.  However  this  may  be,  Dr.  Hamey  inscribed  a  bell, 
which  he  presented  to  the  church,  to  St.  Luke,  the  inscription  on  which  is 
given  on  page  5.  And  from  that  time  until  the  building  of  the  new 
parish  church  it  was  commonly  called  St.  Luke's. 

The  Abbey  of  Westminster  claimed  the  manor  by  virtue  of  a 
charter  from  Edward  the  Confessor,  until  1536,  when  it  was  sold  to 
the  King. 

The  list  of  rectors,  as  far  as  they  are  known,  is  given  on  pages  84-5. 

The  chancel  and  the  adjacent  north  and  south  chapels  of  the  present 
building  are  all  that  remain  of  the  mediaeval  work.  The  chancel  probably 
represents  the  13th-century  eastern  limb,  and  the  original  splays  of  the 
present  modern  east  window  may  be  the  outer  jambs  of  a  triplet  of  lancet 
windows  which  lighted  the  east  end.  A  large  window  was  no  doubt  inserted 
at  a  later  period,  and  drawings  of  the  church  in  the  i8th  century  show  a 
stone  window  of  five  lights  which  was  removed  in  1816  to  make  way  for 
the  present  lights,  as  noted  by  Robert  Chambers.*  The  splays  are  cut  off 
by  the  timbers  of  the  roof,  showing  that  the  chancel  was  lowered  when  it 
was  re-roofed  in  1670.  One  or  two  of  the  stones  of  a  lancet  window  appear 
to  have  been  reset  to  form  a  recess  or  locker  in  the  east  wall  north  of  the 
altar. 

The  arch  opening  from  the  chancel  into  the  North  Chapel  fell  down 
in  1784,  and  the  following  inscription  is  to  be  seen  on  the  north  pier  of  the 
chancel  arch  : 

This   PIER  was 

Rebuilt 
In  the  Year  1784. 

Only  half  of  the  arch  (to  the  east)  was  rebuilt,  the  remainder  of  the  wall 
being  supported  by  the  Jervoise  monument,  which  originally  stood  free. 
The  eastern  respond  of  the  arch  is  semi-octagonal  with  large  splays,  but  at 
the  level  of  the  springing  is  a  square  stone  with  splayed  angles  and  a  moulded 
capital  of  uncertain  date,  probably  recut.  A  plain  squint  behind  this  respond 
gave  a  view  of  the  high  altar  from  the  chapel,  now  almost  obscured  by  the 
arch  to  the  Bray  monument. 

*  Antiquities  in  the  Church  of  St.  Luke,  Chelsea,  MS.  1816.     (Chelsea  Public  Library.) 
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The  north  chapel  was  a  separate  freehold  attached  to  the  Manor 
House  and  goes  by  the  name  of  the  Lawrence  Chapel,  from  Thomas 
I  ,uu  reiicc,  who  occupied  the  old  Manor  House  in  Lawrence  Street.  It  passed 
from  him  through  the  Offley  family  to  Colonel  the  Honourable  Francis 
Needham.  From  him  it  went  to  the  Lewer  family,  and  Henry  Lewer 
sold  it  to  the  Rev.  R.  H.  Davies  in  1894  for  £250,  to  be  presented  by  him  to 
the  church  trustees.  From  the  evidence  of  a  range  of  three  windows  in  the 
north  wall  it  would  appear  that  the  chapel  was  built  early  in  the  I4th  century. 
These  windows  were  evidently  built  at  one  time,  and  the  tracery  in  the 
eastern  window — which  is  now  blocked  on  the  inside,  but  shows  its  external 
work  in  the  new  vestry — dates  from  c.  1320.  The  next  window  westwards 
was  removed  to  make  way  for  a  circular-headed  brick  doorway  (mentioned 
in  the  parish  records  in  1621),  which  retains  its  original  oak  door  and  strap 
hinges,  but  the  shape  of  the  window-head,  rear  arch,  and  label  moulding  is 
similar  to  that  above  described.  It  has  lately  been  re-glazed-  (see  p.  9), 
and  some  stones  from  its  tracery  are  preserved  in  the  church.  The  western 
window  is  most  complete,  and  is  similar  to  the  others  in  the  shape  of 
the  opening  and  the  label  moulding,  and  retains  its  original  splay  and  two- 
centred  rear  arch.  The  tracery,  however,  is  of  later  date  and  was  probably 
inserted  c.  1380.  The  lower  part  of  the  window  has  been  removed  to  make 
way  for  a  late  ^th-century  doorway,  now  blocked,  but  retaining  the  staple 
of  the  door  hinge.  The  window  in  the  east  wall  is  modern,  but  a  portion 
of  the  north  splay  adjoins  a  late  14th-century  cinquefoil  niche  which  remains 
to  the  north  of  it.  The  roof  of  this  chapel  is  ceiled. 

The  south  chapel  is  known  as  the  More  Chapel,  and  was  remodelled 
by  Sir  Thomas  More  when  he  lived  in  Chelsea.  In  an  inventory  of  church 
goods  in  the  year  1549  it  is  called  "  the  Lady  More's  Chapel."  I, ike  the 
Lawrence  Chapel,  it  was  a  freehold,  and  passed,  on  Sir  Thomas  More's  at- 
tainder, to  the  various  possessors  of  his  house,  namely  to  the  King,  Sir  William 
Paulet,  Marquis  of  Winchester,  the  second  Marquis  of  Winchester,  his  step- 
daughter Lady  Dacre,  Lord  Burleigh,  Sir  Robert  Cecil,  Henry  Clinton, 
Karl  of  Lincoln,  and  his  son-in-law,  Sir  Arthur  Gorges.  With  Sir  Arthur 
Gorges  it  ceased  to  be  connected  with  Sir  Thomas  More's  house,  and  went 
to  the  Milinan  family,  who  lived  in  Gorges  House  ;  it  was  sold  by  auction 
<>n  nth  April,  1808,  to  Thomas  Flight  of  Hackney,  and  passed  successively 
.  and  J.  Flight,  Richard  Mann  and  his  son,  and  lastly  to  I.  F.  Crew, 
vho  sold  it  to  the  Rev.  R.  H.  Davies  in  1874.  This  chapel  also  Mr.  Davies 
presented  to  the  church  trustees. 

From  the  evidence  of  the  fine  arch  connecting  the  chancel  with  this 
chapel  it  would  appear  that  the  latter  was  of  earlier  date  than  the  north 
The   arch   is   two-centred,   of   two  chamfered   orders   with   semi- 
octagonal  responds,  and  is  built  of  Godstone  stone.    It  has  apparently  at  one 

been  reset,  but  the  smallness  of  the  stones  and  its  general  character 

icate  a  date  as  early  as  the  I3th  century.    When  Sir  Thomas  More  recon- 

chapel  he  inserted  in  the  responds  of  this  arch  a  charming 

his  time.     This  consists  of  two  very  beautiful  stone  capitals 

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which  are  now  generally  accepted  as  being  from  the  design  of  Holbein,* 
who  was  probably  on  a  visit  to  Sir  Thomas  More  in  1528,  the  date  shown  on 
the  eastern  capital.  Their  design  is  based  on  the  Composite  order,  that  is, 
each  face  of  the  octagon  is  treated  as  an  Ionic  capital  in  the  upper  part,  with 
volutes  at  the  angles,  and  the  remainder  is  carved  with  acanthus  foliage. 
The  western  capital  has  human  heads  carved  in  the  centre  of  the  abacus, 
these  being  replaced  in  the  eastern  one  by  winged  cherubs'  heads,  smaller 
heads  being  used  as  terminals  to  the  spiral  of  the  volute.  The  following 
objects  also  occur  on  the  carved  facets  :  (eastern  capital)  an  achievement  of 
Sir  Thomas  More's  arms,  a  panel  with  date  1528,  a  sword  crossed  with  a 
sceptre,  a  mace  ;  (western  capital)  a  bundle  of  tapers,  two  crossed  candle- 
sticks, a  pail  (of  holy  water)  and  brush,  and  a  missal  with  clasps.  The  carving 
of  the  latter  capital  is  continued  on  the  wall  of  the  chapel  in  very  delicate 
flowing  foliage.  The  windows  of  the  More  Chapel  (the  east  window  and 
two  in  the  south  wall)  retain  their  four-centred  arches  and  internal  splays 
only,  the  openings  having  been  filled  with  semi-circular  headed  windows  of 
brick.  The  roof,  however,  retains  its  old  oak  beams.  It  is  of  two  bays, 
divided  by  a  heavily  moulded  tiebeam  of  14th-century  date,  a  similar  half 
beam  appearing  against  the  east  wall.  These  beams  were  evidently  re-used, 
as  the  king  and  queen  posts  supported  by  them  and  the  brackets  (towards 
east  and  west)  which  carry  the  moulded  purlins  are  probably  not  earlier  than 
the  date  of  More's  reconstruction. 

The  old  nave  and  west  tower  were  pulled  down  in  the  iyth  century 
and  the  present  structure  built  in  their  place.  Subscriptions  towards  the 
rebuilding  were  asked  for  in  1669-70,  and  Mr.  Randall  Davies  has  shown  that 
the  work  was  probably  not  begun  until  after  Lady  Cheyne's  funeral,  1st 
November,  1669.  It  was  completed  in  January,  1671-2,  with  the  exception 
of  the  tower,  which  was  finished  in  1674. 

Although  built  at  a  time  when  Wren's  new  London  churches  were 
being  designed  and  raised,  the  17th-century  work  at  Chelsea  has  a  character 
quite  of  its  own,  and  the  great  brick  tower  might  easily  be  mistaken,  at  a 
first  glance,  for  a  product  of  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII.  It  was  doubtless 
a  local  design,  wrought  by  Chelsea  people,  who  were  still  far  enough 
away  from  London  to  be  able  to  retain  their  own  individuality  and  to  give 
to  their  building  its  local  colour.  The  whole  of  the  new  structure  was  built 
of  brick  —  a  fine  warm-toned  brick  —  with  scarcely  any  admixture  of  stone. 
The  south  and  north  elevations  have  each  two  lofty  semi-circular  headed 
windows,  with  moulded  mullions  and  transomes  and  pointed  arched  lights. 
Between  these  is  a  doorway  on  each  wall  (now  blocked)  with  a  semi-circular 
headed  window  above  and  a  circular  light  at  a  still  higher  level.  The  archi- 
traves, sills,  and  key  blocks  are  all  of  brick,  and  the  south  door  has  an  archi- 
tectural brick  frame  with  pilasters,  entablature,  and  pediment.  Under  the 
eaves  is  a  deep  plaster  cove,  which  surrounds  the  nave  beneath  the  hipped 

*  See  article  by  F.  M.  Nichols,  F.S.A.,  in  Proceedings  of  the  Society  of  Antiquaries,  2nd  Series, 
Vol.  XVII  (1898). 


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>fs.  Inside,  a  semi-circular  stone  arch  separates  the  chancel  from  the  nave, 
and  similar  arches  (elliptical  in  shape)  give  on  to  the  chapels.  The  arches 
are  moulded  with  keystones  carved  with  winged  cherubs'  heads,  and  rest  on 
Mjuare  piers  of  Portland  stone,  with  moulded  capitals  and  plain  bases. 
Across  the  west  end  of  the  church  runs  a  gallery  (vide  infra),  and  the  ceiling 
in  plaster,  with  a  deep  cove  and  moulded  cornice  with  six  winged  cherubs' 
heads. 

The  tower  is  five  stages  in  height  with  an  octagonal  staircase  turret 
at  the  N.W.  angle,  and  clasping  buttresses  of  slight  projection  at  the  other 
angles.  The  stages  are  marked  by  moulded  brick  string  courses,  and  in  the 
belfry,  or  fourth  floor,  are  brick  windows  of  two  pointed  lights.  The  parapet 
is  of  plain  brick,  and  was  formerly  surmounted  by  a  cupola,  placed  there  in 
1679  to  receive  the  Ashburnham  bell  (q.v.).  On  the  south  side  of  the  tower 
is  a  stone  let  into  the  western  buttress,  inscribed  as  follows  : 

THIS    CVPOLA    WAS 

REPAIRED  AND  THIS 

VANE    PUT    UP    IN 

AVGVST   1704 

.\  I ILES    ARNOLD  )  CHURCH 
OLIVER   MADOX  |  WARDENS 

The  cupola  was  removed  in  1815,  but  the  weather  vane  remains. 

The  tower  opens  on  to  the  nave  with  a  high  acutely  pointed  arch 
of  brick  of  two  orders,  flanked  by  oak  posts.  It  has  been  suggested  that 
this  brickwork  may  conceal  the  mediaeval  tower  arch.  North  and  south 
of  the  tower  are  staircases  to  the  gallery,  on  each  side  of  the  main 
entrance  to  the  church  which  is  now  through  the  ground  floor  of  the 
tower.  The  north  stair  is  of  oak,  and  is  a  good  example  of  the  time  of 
II.  It  has  square  newels  with  ball  finials,  and  turned  pendants,  bold 
spiral  balusters,  and  heavily  moulded  handrail  and  string.  The  south  stair 
is  of  a  plainer  character. 


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II.- -THE    CHURCH    FITTINGS 

The  great  interest  attaching  to  the  old  church  proceeds  in  a  large 
degree  from  the  number  and  beauty  of  its  monuments  to  the  past  inhabi- 
tants of  the  riverside  village,  and  also  to  its  numerous  interesting  fittings. 
These  latter  will  now  be  described  in  alphabetical  order. 

1.  Bells. 

The  peal  of  bells  placed  in  the  tower  at  the  rebuilding  of  1670  was 
recast  in  1762,  and  bore  the  following  inscriptions  : 

Tenor — Di[vo]  Lucae  Medico  Evangelico  Balduinus  Hamey  Phil  Evan- 
gelicus  Medicus  D.D.D.  1678.  Recast  in  the  year  1762.  Robert 
Yates  and  Richard  Davis  C.H.  Wardens.  Thomas  Janaway 
of  London  made  us  all. 

•jtb. — Rob1  Yates  &  Richd  Davis  C.H.  Wardens  1762 
T.  J.  Fecit.    Slone  Ellsmere  Rector  D.D. 

6th. — Tho!  Janaway  of  London  made  us  all  1762. 

$th,  \th,  yrd,  2nd,  and  Treble. — Thomas  Janaway  of  London  fecit  1762. 

Of  these  only  No.  4  remains ;  the  rest  were  sold  in  1824.  A  bell  given 
by  the  Hon.  William  Ashburnham,  who  left  money  for  ringing  it  every  night 
at  9  o'clock,  is  preserved  in  the  ground  stage  of  the  tower  (Plate  23.)  The 
ringing  was  discontinued  in  1822.  The  bell  is  inscribed  : 

THE   GVIFT   OF  THE   HONORABLE  WILLIAM  ASHBVRNHAM 
ESQVIER   COFFERER   OF   HIS    MAIESTIES   HOVSHOLD    1679. 

2.  Books. 

In  the  south  aisle  is  an  oak  bookcase  and  desk,  to  which  are  chained 
the  following  books — the  gift  of  Sir  Hans  Sloane  :  "  Vinegar  "  Bible 
(Baskett's  Edition  of  1717),  several  pages  missing;  Fox's  Martyrs  (Vols. 
I  and  3  only)  (Ninth  Edition,  1684)  ;  Homilies  (1683).  These  have  the  auto- 
graph of  Sir  Jonathan  Trelawny,  Bishop  of  Winchester.  Prayer  Book  (1723). 

The  Registers  date  from  1559,  and  are  preserved  at  the  Parish  church. 

3.  Brasses. 

The  brasses  from  the  monument  to  Sir  Arthur  Gorges,  and  those 
attached  to  the  Duchess  of  Northumberland's  tomb  are  described  under 
"  Monuments." 

A  Purbeck  slab  in  the  floor  of  the  chancel  (north  side)  shows  the 
matrix  of  the  brass  of  a  priest.  (See  Plate  39.)  This  is  probably  for  either 
Thomas  Shalers  (died  1451)  or  William  Massenger  (died  1470),  rectors  buried 
at  Chelsea. 


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A  Purbcck  slab  in  the  floor  of  the  chancel  beneath  the  arch  leading 
to  tin-  Lawrence  Chapel  shows  the  matrix  of  the  brass  effigy  of  a  man  in 
armour  and  that  of  his  wife,  with  scrolls  issuing  from  their  mouths  and  four 
^hields  of  arms.  It  has  been  suggested  that  this  marks  the  grave  of  Sir  Henry 
U'.iver,  Sheriff  of  the  City  of  London  in  1465.  He  was  chosen  alderman, 
during  his  shrievalty,  for  Castle  Baynard  Ward  and  afterwards  of  Bishops- 
LMU-  Ward.  He  is  described  as  a  draper,  and  was  made  a  Knight  of  the  Bath 
on  the  occasion  of  the  coronation  of  Elizabeth  Woodville,  consort  to 
Kdward  IV*.  He  died  in  1470,  and  bequeathed  his  body  to  be  buried  in 
the  Church  of  St.  Peter,  in  Cornhill,  before  the  image  of  St.  George  there, 
but  there  is  a  ijth-century  record  in  an  Harleianf  manuscript  of  the  follow- 
ing inscription  in  Chelsea  Church  : 

ORATE  PRO  BONO  STATV  HENRIE  WAVER  MILITIS 
ET  CRISTINE  VXORIS  EIVS 

with  the  arms  given  as  argent,  on  a  fess  sable  3  scallops  or,  impaled  with :  I 
and  4,  ermine  a  cheveron  sable  ;  2  and  3,  on  a  fess  sable  3  crowns  or. 

Mr.  Robert  Chambers!  was  of  opinion  that  this  inscription  and 
coat-of-arms  belonged  to  some  painted  glass  in  the  church,  and  considered 
that  the  matrix  (which  he  describes  as  having  held  a  whole  length  figure  in 
armour  with  dog  at  his  feet  and  sword  by  his  side)  represented  the  effigy  of 
John  Shoreditch,  sometime  lord  of  the  manor  of  Chelsea,  who  died  c.  1407. 

Another  matrix  is  to  be  seen  on  the  tomb  of  Edmund  Lord  Bray. 

4.  Chairs. 

Two  chairs  in  the  chancel  have  been  constructed  of  old  timber  and 
panelling  found  in  the  tower,  which  were  parts  of  the  old  pews  and  furniture 
of  the  church. 

5.  Chests. 

A  plain  rectangular  chest  with  six  locks,  probably  early  17th-century, 
is  preserved  in  the  vestry. 

6.  Clock. 

The  clock  in  the  tower  is  inscribed  : 

Anno  1761 

Edmund  Howard 

Chelsea 

7.  Communion  Table. 

The  communion  table  is  of  late  17th-century  date,  and  has  a  moulded 
top,  with  six  spiral  baluster  legs,  ball  feet,  and  plain  rails.  (Plate  23.) 

'  Aldermen  of  the  City  of  London,  by  Rev.  A.  B.  Beaven. 

An  I  k-raldic  book  in  folio,  consisting  of  coats,  pedigrees,  and  fragments  collected  by  the 
third  Handle  Holme  (1627-99).  Harleian  MSS.  2113,  folio  114  dorso. 

i  Antiquities  in  the  Church  of  St.  Luke,  Chelsea,  MS.  1816,  in  Chelsea  Public  Library. 

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8.  Communion  Rails. 

The  communion  rails  are  of  good  design  of  late  lyth-century  date. 
The  angles  of  the  enclosure  are  rounded.  The  balusters  are  spiral-turned, 
with  heavily  moulded  rail  and  sill.  A  group  of  four  balusters  stand  on  each 
side  of  the  centre  portion  of  the  rails,  which  forms  a  pair  of  folding  gates. 
(Plate  24.) 

9.  Doors. 

The  early  lyth-century  door  in  the  north  wall  of  the  Lawrence  Chapel, 
and  the  heavy  entrance  door  to  the  tower,  are  both  preserved. 

10.  Flags. 

The  iron  standards  for  four  flags  project  from  the  east  wall 
of  the  nave,  but  two  of  the  colours  have  disappeared.  The  remainder 
are  the  survivors  of  a  number  of  flags  that  were  deposited  in  the 
church  on  two  separate  occasions,  the  first  being  the  gift  of  the  Ladies 
of  Chelsea  (in  1800),  and  the  second  by  Queen  Charlotte  (in  1804)  to  the 
Volunteers. 

The  flag  belonging  to  the  earlier  group  appears  to  have  been  originally 
6  ft.  square,  but  now  measures  6  ft.  X4  ft.  6  in.  It  is  a  red  Ensign  (with  the 
Jack  composed  of  the  crosses  of  St.  George  and  St.  Andrew),  and  in  the 
centre  is  a  figure  of  St.  Luke  embroidered  within  sprays  of  foliage 
bearing  roses  and  thistles.  On  a  scroll  beneath  are  the  words : 

ST.   LUKE  CHELSEA. 

The  other  flag,  presented  by  Queen  Charlotte,  is  a  Union  Jack, 
6  ft.  X  5  ft.,  with  the  Royal  arms  in  the  centre,  and  on  a  scroll  the 
words : 

QUEENS   ROYAL  VOLUNTEERS. 

11.  Font. 

The  font  is  a  beautiful  octagonal  fluted  bowl  of  white  marble  on  a 
baluster  stem  (Plates  25-6),  and  retains  its  original  oak  cover,  which  is  octagonal 
on  plan,  each  side  being  curved  in  ogee  form  to  the  summit.  Enriched  gilt 
ribs  mark  the  angles  of  the  sides,  and  the  whole  is  surmounted  by  a  dove, 
and  is  hung  to  a  carved  boss  which  originally  supported  one  of  two  chandeliers 
given  by  Thomas  Frankling  and  Ester  his  wife  in  1693.  The  other  carved 
boss  is  now  fixed  to  the  ceiling  of  the  vestibule  under  the  tower.  The  date 
of  the  font  is  fixed  by  the  following  entry  in  the  Parish  Register  of  1763  : 
"  Luke  the  son  of  Thomas  Gough  was  baptised  the  22d  of  December,  and 
was  the  First  that  was  baptised  in  the  new  Font  given  by  Mr.  Edward 
Bringhurst."  The  baluster  is  fractured  and  the  bowl  may  have  been 
restored. 

12.  Gallery. 

The  present  gallery,  which  is  supported  on  six  wooden  Doric  columns, 

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extends  across  the  whole  width  of  the  western  end  of  the  nave,  and  bears 
the  following  inscription  on  the  east  face  : 

THE  LOWER  PART  OF  THIS  CHURCH  WAS  REPEWED 
AND  REPAIRED  BY  THE  CHURCH  TRUSTEES,  £200  OF 
THE  COST  BEING  SUBSCRIBED  BY  THE  CONGREGA- 
TION A.D.  1858  THE  REVD  C.  KINGSLEY  LL.B  RECTOR. 
THE  REVD  R.  H.  DAVIES  B.A.  INCUMBENT.  JOHN 
FIELDER  AND  JOHN  HURSTWAITE  LEET  ESQRS 
CHURCHWARDENS.  THOMAS  TOMBLESON  AND 
EDWARD  RICHARDS  ESQRES  SIDESMEN. 

In  the  middle  panel  is  a  clock  with  the  date  1857.  The  original  structure 
was  much  smaller,  and  its  plan  is  shown  by  a  small  wooden  template  which 
forms  part  of  the  following  inscription  on  the  western  face  : 

This  gallery  was  erected  by  the  Church  Trustees  A.D.  1857.  REV". 
C.  KINGSLEY,  LL.B.,  Rector  ;  REVD.  R.  H.  DAVIES,  B.A.,  Incum- 
bent ;  J.  FIELDER  &  J.  PERRY,  ESQRS  Church  Wardens :  it  replaced 
a  former  one  planned  thus 


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and  bearing  the  Inscription :    THIS    GALLERY   WAS    BEAUTIFIED 
IN   THE   YEARE   OF   OUR  LORDE    1677 

Against  the  tower  are  two  heavy  oak  posts  (12  in.  x  9  in.),  cased 

the    gallery    level    by    fluted    pilasters    with    moulded   capitals,    above 

vhich  they  project  in  boldly  carved  cherubs'  heads  with  folded  wings  over 

shaped  panels.     These  posts  evidently  support  the  roof,  and  formed  part 

"t  the  original  gallery  of  1677. 

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13.  Glass. 

During  restorations  in  the  last  century  some  fragments  of  I4th  or 
15th-century  glass  were  found  bricked  up  in  the  windows  of  the  Lawrence 
Chapel,  and  have  recently  been  incorporated  in  the  glass  presented  by  Capt. 
Clifford  J.  W.  Hoskin  and  fixed  in  the  window  over  the  vestry  door.  The 
work  has  been  carried  out  by  Captain  Maurice  Drake  of  Exeter,  and  a  key 
plan  showing  the  old  glass  is  preserved  in  the  Committee's  collection. 

14.  Hatchments. 

(1)  Cadogan. — On   the   east   wall   of   the   nave   (towards   the 
north)  are  the  arms  of  Cadogan  :  Quarterly  I  &  4,  gules  a  lion  looking 
back  or  ;  2  &  3,  argent  3  boars'  heads  cut  off  at  the  neck  sable  (Cadogan) 
impaling  argent,  a  fret  gules,  for  Blake,  with  crest  and  supporters. 

MottO  :      QUI    INVIDET   MINOR   EST   (1864). 

(2)  Hatchett. — On  the  east  wall  of  the  nave  (towards  the  south) 
are  the  arms  of  Charles  Hatchett :  Quarterly  I  &  4,  argent,  2  bars,  the 
upper  one  indented,  gules;  2  &  3,  gules  between  2  flaunches  argent  6 
crosslets  or,  on  an  inescutcheon  party  palewise  or  and  azure  3  cheverons 
counter-coloured.    Motto  :    IN  CCELO  QUIES. 

(3)  Cadogan. — On  the  north  wall  of  the  nave  (towards  the  east) 
are  the  arms  of  the  Rev.  the  Honourable  William  Bromley  Cadogan. 

MottO  :     CHRIST  THE   HOPE  OF  GLORY. 

(4)  Cadogan. — Below  the  foregoing  is   another  of  Cadogan 
without  motto :   Impaling  quarterly  I  &  4,  gules,  a  cross  or  between 
5  besants  on  each  quarter ;  2  &  3,  argent  a  lion  gules. 

(5)  Cremorne. — On  the  north  wall  of  the  nave  (towards  the 
west)  is  a  hatchment  bearing  the  arms  of  Viscount  Cremorne  (1813)  : 
Quarterly  i   &  4,  azure,   on  a  bend  engrailed  or  3  martlets  gules ; 
2  &  3,  azure,  3  torches ;  over  all  an  inescutcheon  or,  charged  with 
a  cheveron  and  in  chief  a  bar  engrailed  sable. 

(6)  Edwards. — Below  the  foregoing  is  a  hatchment  bearing  the 
following  arms  :    Party  bendwise  sinister  ermine  and  ermines,  a  lion 
or  (Edwards)  impaling  gules,  a  cheveron  between  2  molets  in  chief 
and  a  crescent  in  base  or,  on  a  chief  azure  3  molets  or.    Crest :  a  man's 
head  in  profile,  helmeted.    Motto  :   A  vinno  dew  Derwid. 

(7)  Hatchett. — On  the  south  wall  of  the  nave  (towards  the 
east)  the  arms  of  Hatchett,  as  in  (2). 

(8)  Cadogan.— Below  the  foregoing  the  arms  of  Cadogan  as 
in  (4),  but  with  motto. 

(9)  Browne. — On   the   south  wall  of   the   nave   (towards   the 
west)  a  hatchment  bearing  the  arms  of  Browne.    Sable,  3  lions  passant 
in  bend  between  2  cotises  argent,  in  chief  a  griffon's  head  erased 
argent.    Impaling  sable  (or  azure),  a  fess  ermine.    Motto  :   RESURGAM. 

15.  Hatstand. 

Two  18th-century  hatstands  of  wrought  iron  are  fixed  to  the  back 
pews  beneath  the  gallery. 

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16.  Helm. 

A  funeral  helm,  with  an  eagle's  head  as  crest,  is  supported  on  a  bracket 
nn  the  cast  wall  of  the  More  Chapel.  The  committee  have  been  favoured 
with  a  report  from  Major  Victor  Farquharson,  F.S.A.,  and  Mr.  Mill  Stephen- 
son,  F.S.A.,  who  inspected  the  helm  on  gth  October,  1915.  They  state  that 
it  is  an  original  armet  of  c.  1530,  or  possibly  a  little  earlier,  to  which  has 
been  added  (at  the  time  of  the  funeral)  a  beevor  and  the  gorget  plate.  The 
armet  vizor  appears  to  have  had  the  lower  portion  cut  away,  perhaps  for 
vertical  bars,  which  would  have  been  fastened  from  its  lower  edge  to  the  chin 
piece.  There  is  little  doubt  that  it  was  used  at  the  funeral  of  Lord  Dacre, 
and  belongs  to  his  monument.  The  helmet  is  painted  and  gilt.  (Plate  27.) 

17.  Images. 

A  figure  of  St.  Luke  in  oak,  gilt  (about  12  in.  high),  holding  a  book, 
is  now  fixed  to  the  south  pier  of  the  chancel  arch  (west  face).  Iris  of  late 
17th-century  date,  and  formerly  stood  on  the  sounding-board  of  the  pulpit. 
Ralph  Palmer,  in  his  memoir  of  Dr.  Baldwin  Hamey,  states  that  "  out  of 
respect  to  St.  Luke  and  Dr.  Hamey,  one  Fletcher,  a  favourite  servant  of 
the  doctor's,  gave  the  little  figure  of  St.  Luke  which  stands  upon  the  rising 
roof  of  the  pulpit." 

1 8.  Inscriptions. 

Charitable  bequests  painted  on  wood  and  hung  in  church. 

1 .  West  Wall  of  gallery.    South  side  : 

/  Samuel  Hunton  EJqr  gave  by  will 
1798     One  Hundred  Pounds,  the  Interest 
I  Arijing  therefrom,  to  be  Annually 
i  Distributed  in  Bread  and  Coals 

To  the  Poor  of  this  Parish 
'  the  Week  before  Chriftmas 

2.  On  West  Wall  of  Gallery.    North  side  : 

/  Mr.  Charles  Larchin  gave  by 
1766     will  to  each  of  the  Charity  Schools 
of  this  PariOi,  Ten  Pounds 

!Mr.  Henry  Hewitt  gave  by 
will  to  each  of  the  Charity  Schools 
of  this  Parifh,  Twenty  Five  Pounds 
William  Joujfelin  Efqr  gave  by 
1782  •  Will  to  each  of  the  Charity  Schools 
of  this  Parifh,  Fifteen  Pounds 
Mrs  Sarah  Coggs  gave 
by  will,  to  each  of  the 
Charity-Schools  of  this 
Parifh,  Twenty  Pounds 
10 


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L.    S.     D. 

20  : — : — 


50  :— :— 


30  :— :— 


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On  the  North  Wall  of  Tower  by  the  entrance  is  a  grey  stone  tablet 
with  enriched  border  and  eight  bells  carved  in  low  relief.  (Plate  28.) 

COLLEGE  YOUTHS 

This  Society  Rung  February  the  i8th  1785 

5040  bob  Major  in  3  hours  &  15  Mints 

being  the  Ist  true  PEAL  Ever  Rung  on 

Thefe  BELLS. 


JAS  WORSTER  treb 
EDWD  SIMMONS  2d 
GEO  PLOWMAN  3d 
JSRL  JOHNSON  4th 


WM  HALLET  5th 

RlCHD    MlLLARD    6th 

THOS  VERREN  7th 
WM   FAULKNER  tenr 


CALLD  by  JAMES  WORSTER 

MR  GEORGE  HARRISON 

MR   ROBERT   MARRIOT 

CHURCHWARDENS 

19.  Mace. 

The  churchwarden's  mace  of  silver  with  shaped  top  surmounted  by 
a  figure  of  St.  Luke  is  preserved  at  the  Old  Church  and  is  inscribed  : 

ST  LUKE  CHELSEA 

Thomas  Simplin  \  CHURCH  WARDENS 

David  Eggleton  )  1791 

A  replica,  silver  gilt,  at  the  Parish  Church  (date  mark  1797-8,  maker's 
mark  I  T),  is  inscribed  : 

ST  LUKE  CHELSEA 

Joseph  Leake  }  CHURCH  WARDENS 

Richard  Price)  1798 

THE  CHURCH 

reseated  October  1884 

CHURCH  WARDENS 
J.  J.  Wheeler) 

and  on  the  lower  part  : 

John  Fielder  Esqr  \  CHURCH  WARDENS 

John  Perry  Repaired  1857 

Repaired  y  parcel  gilt  by 

G.  R.  Craney  ex  Churchwarden 

1 8  October  1884 

A  second  replica,  silver  gilt,  also  at  the  Parish  Church,  bears  the 
names  of  Thomas  Hoblyn  and  William  Deacon,  Churchwardens  1829,  and 
repeats  the  subsequent  inscriptions  on  the  above. 

There  is  a  silver  mounted  staff  of  cane  at  both  churches  for  the  maces. 

A  silver  staff  (date  1824)  2  ft.  II  in.  long,  with  knob  at  one  end  and 
moulded  head  at  the  other,  banded  in  the  centre,  is  preserved  at  the  Parish 
Church. 

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(base) 
base  : 


20.  Niches. 

There  is  a  niche  in  the  east  wall  of  the  Lawrence  Chapel,  to  the  north 
of  the  c.^t  window,  with  cinquefoil  cusping  beneath  a  two-centred  moulded 
arch.  It  is  of  late  14th-century  date,  and  was  probably  repeated  on  the  south 
side  of  the  window. 

A  plain  two-centred  arched  niche  or  locker  is  in  the  east  wall  of  the 
chancel  north  of  the  altar.  It  appears  to  be  formed  of  stones  of  a  lancet 
window  reset.  (Plate  33.) 

21.  Piscina. 

The  eastern  half  of  the  piscina  remains  in  the  south  wall  of  the 
chancel,  and  has  a  chamfered  four-centred  arch  and  jamb  of  the  I5th 
century.  A  groove  has  been  cut  for  a  shelf.  The  western  part  was  removed 
to  insert  the  adjacent  doorway. 

22.  Plate. 

i.*  Flagon,    silver    gilt,    height    u    in.,   diameter   (mouth)   4^   in., 
7  in.  ;    date  mark  1680-1  ;    maker's    mark,  I.E.     Inscribed    under 

Anna  Morgan  Aprill  3  Anno  Domini  1681. 

and  on  the  side  :   I  H  S  within  a  sun  in  splendour. 

2.*  Flagon  similar  to  No.  i,  with  the  same  inscription. 

3.*  Alms-dish  with  moulded  rim  and  foot,  silver  gilt,  diameter  12 
ins.  ;  date  mark,  1676-7  ;   maker's  mark  F.S.    Inscribed  : 

Dedicated 
to  y'  use  of  the 

Communion  Table  in  Chelsey   , 

Church  in  memory  of  Mrs  Elizabeth 

Bateman  who  dyed  in  y'  Parish 

the  2d  of  Auguft 

1675  Etat  sue 

*7 

The  inscription  is  in  a  lozenge,  and  in  another  are  the  arms  :  Three  crescents, 
each  having  a  star  (molet)  between  the  horns.  The  dish  is  further  ornamented 
with  feathered  scrollwork  and  a  small  skull  beneath  the  inscription. 

4.*  Chalice  with  baluster  stem,  silver  gilt,  height  7  ft  in.  ;    diameter 
hp  3?  in.;    date    mark,    1778-9;    maker's  mark  W.B.,  inscribed  with 
I  H  h  within  the  sun's  rays. 

5.  Chalice  similar  to  No.  4. 

6.*  Paten,  with  foot  and  incised  rim,  silver  gilt ;   date  mark,  1624-;  ; 
maker  s  mark  F.G. 


*  Kept  at  the  Parish  Church  of  St.  Luke. 


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7.*  Spoon,  rat-tail  pattern,  silver  gilt,  length  7$-  in.  ;  date  mark, 
1698-9.  Inscribed: 

The  gift  of  the  Revd  Charles  Sturges  1797. 

8.*  Alms-dish,  pewter  with  deep  scolloped  rim,  diameter  lo|  in., 
engraved  with  the  seated  figure  of  St.  Luke  and  bull  within  a  circle. 

9  and  10.  Two  alms-dishes,  pewter,  similar  to  No.  8,  but  without 
figure  of  St.  Luke,  and  inscribed  : 

St.  Lukes  Chelsea  1754 

1 1  *  and  1 2 . *  Two  alms-dishes,  pewter,  similar  to  the  last,  but  dated  1 764. 
13  and  14.  Two  similar  dishes  dated  1784. 

23.  Pulpit. 

The  hexagonal  pulpit  is  of  late  17th-century  date,  with  rectangular 
raised  panels  and  bolection  mouldings  enriched  with  leaf  ornament.  Fes- 
toons of  carved  leaf  and  fruit  adorn  the  angles.  The  cornice  and  base  are 
moulded,  and  it  is  supported  by  a  trumpet-shaped  stem.  The  stair  is  modern. 
It  originally  possessed  a  sounding-board  on  which  stood  the  figure  of  St. 
Luke  already  described.  (Plates  29—30.) 

24.  Royal  Arms. 

An  entry  in  the  Parish  Books  records  the  putting  up  of  the  King's 
Arms  in  1678.  They  are  painted  on  wood,  and  originally  formed  the  centre 
panel  of  a  gallery  in  the  chancel.  They  are  now  hung  above  the  chancel 
arch  in  the  nave. 

25.  Seating,  etc. 

The  seating  of  the  church  dates  from  1858,  but  a  few  of  the  old 
panelled  oak  pews  remain  in  the  Lawrence  Chapel.  On  one  of  these  is  painted 
a  circular  medallion  with  an  achievement  of  arms  :  Or  a  lion  passant  between 
three  tassels  gules  (?  Chester)  impaling  azure  a  bend  between  3  birds  or.  Crest  : 
A  hand  holding  a  sword. 

Various  carved  panels  are  incorporated  in  the  modern  seats,  and  in 
the  chancel  are  two  carved  panels  showing  a  mitre  in  the  foliage,  which 
formerly  belonged  to  the  pew  of  the  Bishops  of  Winchester  (1718). 

A  small  cabinet  (triangular  in  plan)  of  marquetry  work  (c.  1700)  has 
been  converted  into  a  prayer  desk. 

26.  Sundial. 

The  stone  sundial  built  into  the  southern  face  of  the  eastern  buttress 
of  the  tower  is  of  simple  rectangular  form,  with  a  plain  metal  rod  and  stay 
as  gnomon.  It  bears  the  date  1692,  and  the  motto  : 

UT  VITA  FINIS   ITA. 

27.  Weather-vane. 

The  vane,  surmounted  by  a  crown,  dates  from  1704,  as  recorded  on 
the  inscription  stone  on  the  tower  (vide  ante).  (Plate  31.) 

*  Kept  at  the  Parish  Church  of  St.  Luke. 

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III.— MONUMENTS    WITHIN    THE    CHURCH* 

Chancel.     East  Wall. 

1.  EDWARD  HOLL,    1823. 

A  square  inscription  tablet  of  white  marble  with  black  surround. 

2.  LUCY  SMITH,   1781,  and  ANNE   WILTON,   1781. 

This  tablet  is  by  Joseph  Wilton,  sculptor  (1722-1803),  stated  by 
Faulknerf  to  be  the  father  of  these  ladies.  The  inscription  slab  of  white 
marble  has  a  cornice  and  two  pendants  with  guttae,  and  supports  two  draped 
funeral  urns  of  different  design  in  white  marble,  set  against  a  pyramidal 
background  of  grey  marble.  The  inscription  reads : 

To  the  Memory  of  two  affectionate  Sifters    . 
whofe  Remains  are  depofited 
in  the  Vault  of 
this  Chancel. 

The  virtues  which  in  their  fhort  Lives  were  Jhewn  : 
Have  equal' d  been  by  few  ;  Jurpajs'd  by  none. 

On  the  urns  are  panels,  elliptical  and  rectangular  respectively,  and  inscribed: 

LUCY  SMITH  ANNE  WILTON 

died  died 

22"J  Aug"  1781  March  io'h  1781  . 

aged  aged  23  Tears 

33  Years 

Beneath  the  inscription  panel  is :    J.  Wilton  fecit. 

3.  MARY  RUSH,    1854. 

An  elliptical  tablet  of  white  marble  with  black  surround. 

4.  THOMAS  HURD,   1823:   FREDERICA  KURD,   1824. 

A  tablet  of  white  marble  with  cornice  and  pedimental  head  on  a 
ground  of  black  marble. 

5.  CATHERINE   RUSH,   1846. 

An  elliptical  inscription  tablet  of  white  marble  on  a  rectangular 
background  of  black  marble. 

*  Inscriptions  after   1800  are  not  given  except  in  the  case  of  monuments  of  particular 
interest 

f   Chelsea  and  its  Environs,  Vol.  I,  p.  214. 

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6.       MARTHA   DENVER,    1795:    JOHN   DENYER,    1806. 

An  inscribed  rectangular  slab  of  white  marble  with  a  grey  marble 
surround,  having  a  white  moulded  cornice.  The  inscription  runs  : 

Sacred  to  the  memory  of  JOHN  and  MARTHA  DENVER 

The  best  of  Parents,  and  the  best  of  Friends 

Who  resigned  this  mortal  life  in  a  well  grounded  hope 

of  a  Joyful  Resurrection  to  Eternal  Life 

through  Faith  in  the  alone  merits 

of  our  LORD   and   Saviour  JESUS  CHRIST 

They  lived  together  in  great  connubial  Happinefs 

Forty  two  years  and  died 

MARTHA  on  the  i8th  Day  of  January.  1795  Aged  64  Years 
and  JOHN  on  the  6th  Day  of  January.  1806  Aged  76  Years 
Their  Remains  are  interred  in  Millman  Chapel 
in  the  South  Aisle  of  this  their  Parish  Church. 
With  a  grateful  Remembrance  of  their  many  Kindnesses 
This  Tablet  is  Erected  by  their  only  Child  and  Daughter. 

Chancel.     North  Wall. 
j.    MOUNTAGUE   RUSH,   1808. 

8.  ELIZA  CHAMBERS,   1818. 

9.  HENRY  RUSH,   1812. 

10.  HONOUR  RUSH,   1814:   GEORGE   RUSH,   1814. 

11.  ELOISE   RUSH,    1823:    JOHN   RUSH,   1828:    HENRY  RUSH, 

1839. 

12.  REVo  JOHN   RUSH,  LL.B.,    1855. 

With  the  exception  of  No.  n,  which  is  rectangular,  these  are  all 
elliptical  slabs  of  white  marble.  The  Rev.  John  Rush  was  the  first  incum- 
bent of  the  old  church,  after  the  new  parish  church  was  built.  He  acted 
as  curate  to  the  Hon.  G.  V.  Wellesley,  Rector  of  Chelsea. 

13.  THOMAS  HUNGERFORD,    1581. 

This  tablet  of  alabaster  and  marble  bears  the  kneeling  effigies  of  (left) 
Thomas  Hungerford  and  two  sons  (the  head  of  the  first  son  is  missing), 
and  (right)  his  wife  Ursula,  daughter  of  William  Lord  Sandes,  and  their 
daughter,  all  attired  in  the  costume  of  the  period.  Two  semi-circular  arches, 
one  over  each  group,  are  separated  by  a  Corinthian  column  which,  with  two 
similar  columns  at  the  sides,  supports  a  horizontal  entablature  with  a  dentil 
course  in  the  cornice.  The  entablature  (with  the  exception  of  the  top 
member  of  the  cornice)  breaks  forward  over  the  columns,  and  a  similar 
treatment  occurs  on  the  plinth  which  bears  two  inscribed  panels  between 
the  pedestals  to  the  columns.  The  whole  is  supported  on  an  unbroken 

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HungerfirJ. 


horizontal  moulding,  and  is  crowned  by  a  medallion  and  two  shields  of  arms, 
enclosed  in  frames  of  ornamental  strapwork. 

'I 'he  frieze  of  the  entablature  is  inscribed  as  follows : 

O  LORDE   IN  THE   HAVE   I  TRVSTED 
LETT  ME   NEVER  BE   CONFOVNDED. 

And  in  the  panels  are  the  following  lines  : 

HERE    LIETH    THE    BODIES    OK    THOMAS    HVNGERFORD 

OF    CHILSEY    IN    THE    COVNTY    OF    MIDD    ESQVIER 

THE    SECOND    SONNE    OF    ROBERT    HVNGERFORD 

THELDER    OF    CADNAME    IN    THE    COVNTY    OF    WILTH 

ESQVIER    WHICH    HATH    SERVED    KING    HENRY    THE 

VIII    IN    THE    ROMETH    OF    A    GENTILMA    PENCIONER    AND 

WAS    WITH    HIS    MATI1    AT    THE    WINING    OF    BOLOGNE     . 

AND    KING    EDWARD    THE    VI    AT    MVSSELBROVGFE 

FEILD    BESIDES    QVENE    MARY    AND    QVENE 

ELIZABETH    IN    THEIR    AFFAIRES    BEING    OF 

THADGE    OF    LXX    YERES    WHO    HAD    TO    WIFE 

VRSVLA    MAIDENHEAD    THE    DAVGHTER 

OF    THE    LADY    SANDS    ANNO    DOMNE    1581. 

The  central  medallion  bears  :  Quarterly  I  &  4,  sable,  2  bars  argent,  in 
chief  3  plates  (Heytesbury)  ;  2  &  3,  Party  palewise  indented  gules  and  vert,  a 
cheveron  or  (Hungerford).  Above  is  a  badge  of  a  garb  between  2  sickles. 
The  left-hand  shield  bears  :  Quarterly  I  &  4,  Heytesbury  quartering  Hun- 
gerford with  a  crescent  for  difference  ;  2,  gules,  3  garbs  argent  banded  gules, 
a  chief  or  (Peverell)  ;  3,  quarterly  ;  i  &  4,  ermine,  a  lion  gules  crowned  or 
within  an  engrailed  border  sable  bezanty  (Plantagenet,  Earl  of  Cornwall)  ; 
2  &  3,  or,  a  saltire  engrailed  sable  (Botetourt). 

The  shield  on  the  right  hand  bears :  Quarterly  I  &  4,  Heytesbury 
quartering  Hungerford  ;  2  &  3,  Peverell. 

Thomas  Hungerford  appears  to  have  possessed,  and  probably 
resided  in,  Arch  House,  Chelsea,  which  is .  described  in  Chelsea,  Part  II.* 
He  married  Ursula,  daughter  of  William  Lord  Sandes,  the  lord  of  the 
manor,  and  widow  of  James  Barnard,  whose  sister  Winifred  married  Richard 
Jervoise.  He  held  properties  in  Chelsea  in  right  of  his  wife.t 

14.  RICHARD   WILSON,  D.D.,  1879. 

A  small  rectangular  slab  of  white  marble  with  small  medallion  portrait. 

15.  MARIA  BUCKBY,   1733. 

A  large  tablet  in  white  marble;  the  inscribed  stone  is  flanked  by 

"  Survey  of  London,  Vol.  IV,  p.  4. 

I    I'.ntry  in  Court  Rolls,  1544  (P.R.O.,  fo.  205),  quoted  by  Mr.  Randall  Davics  in  Chfhf,, 
Old  Church,  p.  226.    Also  ibid.,  pp.  227-9. 

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fluted  pilasters  with  capitals  of  the  Composite  order  and  plain  ant<z.  The 
pilasters  support  sections  of  entablature  and  a  cleft  pediment  of  which  the 
two  side  portions  are  curved  and  end  in  plain  volutes,  while  in  the  centre  is 
a  detached  portion  of  the  usual  triangular  form,  surmounted  by  a  cartouche 
with  a  lozenge-shaped  shield  of  arms.  A  carved  lamp  stands  on  each  side. 
A  plain  ledge,  brackets,  and  a  panelled  apron  complete  the  lower  part  of  the 
memorial. 

The  arms  are  :  sable,  a  cheveron  between  3  bucks'  attires  or.     The 
inscription  runs :  Buckby. 

H.S.E. 
MARIA  BUCKBY 

GULIELMI  BUCKBY  Servientis  ad  Legem  Filia, 

Virgo  omni  Officiorum  generc, 

Omnibus  Animi  Dotibus, 

Inftructa  ; 
Singulis  memorare, 

Tarn   cumulates   Virtutis  Diminutio  foret. 
Deo  Pietas,  Homini  Caritas 

Inclaruit, 

Animi  Firmitatem  Dolorum  perpejsio, 
Spem  caelitu's  demifsam  Mortis  Contemptio 

Comprobavit. 

Omnes  callebat  Artes  quce  Faeminam  decebant, 
Sibi  bonorificas,  Suis  perjucundas, 

Obijt  A.D.  1733. 

ANNA   SKINNER  i  Sorore  Filia, 
Cui  tantam  Virtutem  propius  contemplari  licuit, 

Diuturnce  Consentudinis  memor, 

Et  ne  neglectcz  jacerent  tarn  dulces  Exuvice 

Hoc  Monumentum  Pojuit 

juxta  Quod  Ipsa  moriens 

Anno  Xti  MDCCLVI  sepeliri 

Voluit. 

Ann  Skinner  resided  in  No.  24  Cheyne  Row  (Carlyle's  House)  from 
1725  to  1736,*  and  is  mentioned  in  the  will  of  Robert  Woodcock  as  being 
in  possession  of  his  house  in  Church  Lane  in  1710. 

16.    EDMUND   LORD   BRAY,   1539. 

This  stone  altar  tomb,  though  stated  by  Lysons  to  be  on  the  north 
side  of  the  chancel,,  was  not  in  its  present  position,  where  it  has  been 

*  Survey  of  London,  Vol.  IV,  p.  64. 


CHELSEA 

placed  under  a  modern  recess  in  the  north  wall.  It  retains  its  original 
moulded  coping  slab,  which  no  doubt  bore  a  brass  effigy.  The  side  of  the  tomb 
which  is  now  visible  has  two  lozenge-shaped  panels  with  shields  and  tracery, 
and  remains  of  a  similar  panel  at  the  east  end.  A  portion  of  the  original 
inscription  is  preserved  in  John  Weever's  Ancient  Funeral  Monuments  (1631) : 

"  Of  your  charitie  pray  for  the  soul  of  Edmund  Bray,  Knight,  Lord 
Bray,  cosin  and  heire  to  Sir  Reignold  Bray,  knight  of  the  garter.  .  .  ." 
He  states  (p.  523)  that  "  His  brother  Reignold  Bray  Esquire  lieth  buried  by 
him,  but  their  monuments  are  so  defaced  that  I  can  find  no  further  remem- 
brance, neither  of  their  lives,  nor  of  their  death." 

Sir  Reginald  Bray,  who  acquired  the  manor  of  Chelsea  in  1485,  was 
a  distinguished  man  of  affairs  in  the  reign  of  Henry  VII.  He  has  credit  for 
the  important  part  he  took  in  arranging  the  marriage  between  the  Earl  of 
Richmond,  afterwards  Henry  VII,  and  the  Princess  Elizabeth,  and  his  services 
as  statesman  were  only  rivalled  by  his  activities  as  architect  if  his  reputed 
connection  with  the  designs  for  St.  George's  Chapel,  Windsor,  and  Henry 
VII's  Chapel,  Westminster,  has  any  foundation  in  fact.  In  1496  he  made  his 
nephew,  Edmund  Bray,  his  heir,  and  died  in  1503.  We  do  not  know  whether 
he  was  buried  at  Chelsea,  but  his  brother  John,  the  father  of  Edmund,  was 
interred  in  the  old  church,  as  we  learn  from  the  will  of  his  son,  who  directs 
"  my  bodie  to  be  buried  at  Chelsey  besides  the  Sepulture  of  John  Bray 
Esquier."  John,  second  Lord  Bray,  who  died  in  1557,  was  also  buried  at 
Chelsea,  and  a  full  account  of  his  funeral  procession  from  Blackfriars  is  given 
in  a  manuscript  preserved  at  the  Heralds'  College  (MS.  I.  XV.,  fo.  279). 
In  it  he  is  stated  to  have  been  "  buryed  at  Chelseye  in  the  myddest  of  the 
highe  chauncell  there,  with  his  father  and  grandfather  undre  one  highe 
tombe  there."  The  tomb  and  banners  are  shown  in  a  drawing  in  the 
Lansdowne  MSS.,  of  which  a  copy  is  in  the  Council's  collection. 

A  modern  inscription  was  placed  over  this  tomb  in  1902  by  Reginald 
More  Bray,  K.C.,  now  a  judge.  The  relationship  of  the  members  of  the 
family,  and  the  succession  of  the  manor  may  be  set  forth  thus  : 


Sir  Reginald  Bray,  K.G.,  John  Bray,  Esqr 

Lord  of  the  manor  1485-1503.  Buried  at  Chelsea. 


Sir  Edmund,  Lord  Bray  Margery  Bray 

Lord  of  the  manor  1503-1510.    married  Sir  William  Sandes, 
Buried  at  Chelsea  1539.  afterwards  Lord  Sandes. 

I  Lord  of  the  Manor  1510-15 

John,  2nd  Lord  Bray, 
Died  1557.    Aged  36. 
Buried  at  Chelsea. 


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17.  ADAM  LITTLETON,  D.D.,  1694. 

A  plain  rectangular  tablet  of  white  marble,  on  two  small  brackets, 
and  crowned  with  moulded  cornice  and  cleft  pediment  enclosing  a  little 
funeral  urn  with  flames.  The  inscription  is  the  following  : 

Hie  prope  si'tum  eft  Corpus 

Doctifsimi  Viri,  et  de  literis  optime 

Meriti,  AD  AMI  LITTLETON 

S:T:P:  Capellani  REG1J  :  Canonici 

WESTMONASTERIENSIS :     & 

Hujus  Ecclef ias  (per  fpatium 

XXIIII  Annorum)  Rectoris, 

Omnibus  hujus  PAROCHI1E 

Incolis  unice  Chari  :    e  ftirpe 

Antiqua,  &  Venerabili  Oriundi. 

Obijt  ultimo  die  lunij  1694. 
Anno  aetatis  fuae  67. 

Dr.  Littleton  was  rector  of  Chelsea  from  1669-70  to  1694.  His 
Latin  Dictionary,  which  has  made  his  name  well  known,  was  published  in 
1673.  ^n  1680  he  published  a  volume  of  sixty-one  sermons,  which  he  dedi- 
cated to  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish.  Copies  of  these  two  works  have  recently 
been  presented  to  the  church  by  Mr.  Randall  Davies.  He  delivered  the 
funeral  sermon  at  the  burial  of  Lady  Jane  Cheyne  on  I  November,  1669, 
and  turned  Lord  Cheyne's  inscriptions  for  her  tomb  into  Latin.  It  was 
during  his  rectorship  that  the  nave  and  tower  of  the  Church  were  pulled 
down  and  rebuilt. 

1 8.  MARIA  HYDE,  1831. 

A  rectilinear  tablet  with  shaped  angles  of  white  marble  on  a  grey 
marble  background. 

19.  THOMAS  (1827)  AND  CATHERINE  LONG,  1822. 

A  rectilinear  tablet  of  white  marble,  with  horizontal  moulded  capping 
and  two  small  brackets,  on  a  background  of  black  marble. 

20.  EDWARD  STANLEY,  1751. 

A  simple  tablet  with  shaped  outline,  the  edge  moulded  with  a  plain 
bead,  inscribed  as  follows  : 

In  Memory 
of 

EDWARD  STANLEY  Efq*. 
of  DALEGARTH  in  the.  County 
of  CUMBERLAND  ^ 

who  Died  the  23d  of  luly  /7J/. 
Aged  61. 

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»i.     ANN  STAFFORD,  1722.    HUGH  STAFFORD,  1729. 

A  square  inscription  tablet  of  white  marble,  with  projecting  bead 
on  edge  and  a  semi-circular  head  carved  with  branches  of  palm,  inscribed  as 
foil* 

Near  this  Place  lies  the  Body  of 

M    ANN  STAFFORD  daughter.  Oi 
HUGH  STAFFORD  Efq  of  Pynes  in 

the    county    of    Devon    who    departed 
this  life  July  the  3Oth  1722.     Aged  18 

years. 

As  alfo  the  Body  of  HUGH 

STAFFORD  Gentleman  only  fon 

of  the  afore-faid  HUGH  STAFFORD 

Efqr    who    departed     this    life    April 

the     29lh     1729.       Aged     23     years. 

22.  ANNA  BRIDGE,  1807. 

Shaped  tablet,  in  form  of  the  end  of  a  sarcophagus,  on  background  ot 
grey  marble  with  a  cross,  and  having  a  white  marble  panel  inscribed  in 
Latin. 

23.  RICHARD  JERVOISE,  1563. 

This  monument  stands  between  the  Chancel  and  the  Lawrence 
Chapel,  and  supports  part  of  the  wall  and  roof  of  the  Church.  It  is  probable, 
as  already  stated,  that  the  tomb  originally  stood  free,  and  that  it  was 
brought  into  service  in  this  way  when  the  arch  to  the  Lawrence  Chapel 
was  rebuilt  in  1784.  It  is  of  freestone,  now  painted,  and  consists  of  a  deep 
semi-circular  arch,  with  moulded  archivolt,  standing  on  two  piers  which  form 
the  responds  of  the  arch,  pilasters  being  introduced  on  the  face  of  the  piers 
above  the  springing,  and  the  whole  being  crowned  by  a  horizontal  entablature 
which  breaks  forwards  over  the  pilasters.  The  north  and  south  elevations 
are  similar,  the  entablature  consisting  of  a  plain  moulded  cornice,  a  very 
deep  fluted  frieze  and  moulded  architrave.  In  the  centre  of  the  frieze  is 
an  t  scutcheon  with  a  shield  of  arms  and  a  crest  on  either  side.  Two  other 
shields  are  in  the  sunk  spandrels  over  the  arch.  The  pilasters  have  strap- 
Work  ornament  at  the  frieze  level,  below  which  is  a  conventional  palm  leaf 
beneath  a  large  flower  and  festoon  of  drapery.  The  responds  have  moulded 
cornice  and  base,  and  two  panels,  each  ornamented  with  convex  flutes  or 
rnlk  The  flutes  on  the  frieze  and  the  panels  to  the  piers  below  the  springing 
are  repeated  at  the  ends  of  the  monument,  but  in  the  place  of  the  arch  is 
a  semi-circular  headed  niche  with  a  shell  pattern  carved  above  vertical 
fluting.  The  soffit  of  the  arch  has  a  continuous  band  of  strapwork  in  high 
relief,  the  upper  panels  of  each  pier  beneath  the  springing  being  occupied 
by  an  achievement  of  arms  on  the  east  face  of  the  west  pier,  and  by 

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an   inscribed  panel  of  alabaster  let  into  the  other.     The  inscription  is  as 
follows  : 

VIRTVTIS  PRJEMIVM  LAVS 
RlCHARDI,  LECTOR,  GERVOISI  FVNERA  CERNIS, 

VNA  HIC  PARTE  SVI,  CORPORE  NEMPE  IACET. 
IVRISCONSVLTVS,  IVS  MORTIS   NON  FVGIT  ATRJE 

IVS   HABET  IN  IVVENES,  IVS  HABET  INQ  SENES. 
OMNES  ILLA  RAPIT,  NVLLO  DISCRIMINE  SJEVIT  : 
SERIVS,  AVT  CITIVS,  MORS  TRVCVLENTA  VENIT. 
ILLA  FVRENS  IVVENIS  IVVENILIA  FILA  RESOLVIT, 
ANNIS  AH,  IVVENIS,  MENTE  ERAT  ISTE  SENEX. 
HVNC  SVPER  ASTRA  TVLIT  VHVE  CONSTANTIA,  MORTIS 

EXITVS,  ET  VERjE  RELIGIONIS  AMOR. 
ILLI  VITA  FVIT  CHRISTVS,  MORS  OPTIMA  LVCRVM, 
MORTVVS  ERGO  SVIS,  VIVIT  AT  ILLE  DEO. 
OBIJT  6°  DIE  FEB. 

A°    DNI    1563 
A°    j<£TATIS    SVM,    27. 

The  arms  on  the  centre  shields  are  sable,  a  cheveron  between  3  eaglets 
argent  (Jervoise)  impaling  quarterly  I  &  4,  sable,  within  a  border  gulfs,  a 
cheveron  between  3  spear-heads  or,  a  molet  for  difference  on  the  cheveron  ; 
2  &  3,  azure,  3  beacons  burning  or.  The  arms  of  Jervoise  and  of  the  first 
quartering  on  the  impaled  coat  are  given  on  separate  shields,  and  the  Jervoise 
arms  also  appear  in  the  achievement  beneath  the  arch.  The  crest,  which 
appears  also  twice  on  the  frieze  on  both  sides  of  the  monument,  is  a  tiger's 
head  sable,  tusked  and  maned  or. 

It  seems  evident  that  the  monument  is  incomplete,  and  that  it  was 
originally  intended  to  have  an  altar  tomb  beneath  the  arch.*  Indeed, 
there  are  two  extant  drawings  showing  an  altar  tomb,  one  in  the  collection 
of  Sir  Edward  Coates,  Bt.  (Plate  42),  and  the  other  on  a  pedigree  of 
the  Jervoise  family  at  the  College  of  Arms.  Part  of  the  plinth  on  which 
the  tomb  stood  was  discovered  a  few  years  back  and  restored  to  its  original 
position. 

The  inscription  on  the  monument  is  to  Richard,  the  third  son  of 
Richard  Jervoise,  who  resided  in  the  old  Manor  House  (afterwards  Lawrence 
Housef)  after  Henry  VIII  had  purchased  it  from  Lord  Sandes. 

Thomas  Faulkner  says  that  the  monument  "  was  probably  erected 
to  Richard  Gervoice,  Sheriff  of  London,  who  died  in  1557,"!  but  we  have 
no  record  of  the  date  of  his  death,  and  Faulkner  appears  to  have  given  this 
year,  owing  to  the  fact  that  it  was  the  date  of  the  grant  of  the  old  Manor 

*  Mr.  Robt.  Chambers  states  in  a  note  inserted  in  his  MS.  (Antiquities  in  the  Church  of 
St.  Luke,  Chelsea)  that  "  the  altar  tomb,  which  was  wainscotted  round,  was  removed  away  in 
the  spring  of  1819  to  make  the  pew  larger  ;  there  was  no  inscription  upon  it." 

t  See  Survey  of  London,  Vol.  IV,  p.  58. 

}  Chelsea  and  its  Environs,  Vol.  I,  p.  215. 

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CHELSEA 

House  to  John  Caryll,  the  Patent  describing  the  house  as  "  now  or  late  in 
the  occupation  of  Richard  Jarvoys.".  The  elder  Richard  married  Winifred 
Stathum  (nee  Barnard),  whose  brother  James  was  the  first  husband  of 
Ursula  Sandes.  We  have  already  seen  that  this  Ursula  was  daughter  of 
Lord  Sandes  and  ultimately  married  Thomas  Hungerford.  The  Jervoise 
family  history  is  given  with  much  interesting  detail  in  a  paper  by  Mr. 
F.  H.  T.  Jervoise  in  The  Ancestor,  Vol.  III. 

24.    BALDWIN  HAMEY,  M.D.,  1676. 

A  slab  of  black  polished  marble,  with  shaped  head  and  base  and 
moulded  edge,  bears  an  inscription  as  below,  also  a  shield  of  arms  in  the 
upper  portion  and  a  medallion  with  crest  in  the  lower. 

M.  S 

IN  ipfo  Ecclefiae  Adyto 

Sub  lato  marmore  luxta  deponitur 

BALDUINUS  HAMEY.  M.D. 

Academiae  Lugdunenfis  Batavorum 

Oxonienfis  Anglorum 

Collegiique  Medicorum  Londinienfis 

Deliciae  Decus  et  Defiderium 

Eruditorum  olim  Afylum 

Facultatis  Lumen 

Vera  Encyclopaedia 

Ex  animo 

Phil-Evangelicus  Medicus 
Anglus. 

RADULPHUS  PALMER  Obiit  An°  JEtaf  76 

Ar.  e  Soc  :   Med.  Templi  Restauratae  falutis 

Pronepos  pie  pofuit.  MDCLXXVI. 

Arms :  Gules,  a  fess  or  between  a  roebuck  or  in  chief,  and  three 
molets  of  six  points  argent  in  base.  Motto :  SITIENDO.  Crest :  a  demihart. 

The  stone  in  the  floor  of  the  Chancel  covering  his  grave  is  inscribed 
as  follows  : 

THE    RETVRN    OF    BALDWIN    HAMEY 

DR  OF  PHYSIC K  ON  THE  i^th  day  of  May 

BEING    WHITSVNDAY    IN    THE   YEAR    OF    OVR 
LORD    ^76    IN    THE    76   YEAR    OF    HIS    AGE 

PSALM     146    VERSE    4. 

"  HIS    BREATH    GOETH    FORTH    AND    MAN 
RETVRNETH    TO    HIS    EARTH." 

Dr.  Hamey,  son  of  Baldwin  Hamey,  M.D.,  whose  monument  is  in 
5  Church  of  Allhallows  Barking,  lived  at  Little  Chelsea,  having  moved 

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there  probably  after  the  loss  of  his  library  in  the  great  fire  of  London.  He 
was  a  great  benefactor  to  the  Royal  College  of  Physicians,  where  there  is 
still  some  oak  panelling  adorned  with  his  arms.  The  College  possesses  his 
bust,  and  a  portrait  by  Snelling,  while  another  portrait  (a  copy  of  a  painting 
by  Vandyck)  is  now  in  the  Bodleian  Picture  Gallery. 

25.     RALPH   PALMER,    1715  :   ALICE   PALMER,    1708. 

This  is  a  smaller  but  similar  tablet  to  that  of  Dr.  Hamey,  placed  just 
beneath  his  and  ingeniously  contrived,  both  by  the  arrangement  of  two 
medallions  of  arms  and  the  curving  lines  of  the  inscription,  to  appear  a 
pendant  of  the  upper  tablet. 

The  inscription  runs  : 

To  the  Memory  of  RALPI/ PALMER  of  Little  Chelsea  Esqr  and  ALICE 

his  wife.     He  was  a  near  Relation  to  Dr  HAMEY  and  after  his  example 

A  kind  Benefactor  to  this  Church.    He  died  Feb  ift  1715  aged  80 

Years  fhe  the  14th  Sep'  1708  Aged  75 

and  were  here  Interr'd. 


Arms  :  (a)  Quarterly  I  &  4,  argent,  3  palmers'  staves  sable  (Palmer)  ; 
2,  argent,  a  fess  gules  between  a  demi-lion  gules  in  chief,  and  3  molets  of  six 
points  azure  in  base  (Oyles).  3  Hamey,  as  above. 

(b)  Gules,  a  cheveron  argent  between  three  boars'  heads  erased  argent. 

Ralph  Palmer  was  the  son  of  another  Ralph  Palmer,  whose  mother 
was  Dr.  Hamey's  only  sister,  and  who  left  a  MS.  memoir  of  the  doctor, 
which  is  preserved  at  the  Royal  College  of  Physicians.  Many  interesting  Palmer. 

details  concerning  the  Palmer  family  have  been  recorded  by  Mr.  Randall 
Davies  from  the  Verney  papers  at  Claydon  House.* 

A  small  brass  plate  beneath  this  tablet  records  that  Dr.  Hamey's 
monument  was  restored  in  1880  by  the  Royal  College  of  Physicians  "  in 
grateful  remembrance  of  their  munificent  benefactor." 

Chancel.     South  Wall. 

26.  JANE   RUSH,   1815. 

Inscription  tablet  of  white  marble  flanked  by  small  columns  of  black 
marble,  with  moulded  cornice  and  base  and  a  semi-circular  head. 

27.  ELIZABETH    (MAYERNE)    DE    CAUMONT,    MARCHIONESS 

DE    CUGNAC,   1653. 

The  lower  part  only  of  this  monument  remains — the  inscription  slab 
of  black  marble  flanked  by  two  plain  panels,  and  the  moulded  ledge,  below 

*  Chelsea  Old  Church,  pp.  206-214. 

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which  is  a  winged  cherub's  head  and  scrollwork,  all  in  white  marble.  It 
bears  the  following  inscription  : 

I).  O.  M.  S. 

ELIZABETHS     EQVITIS    THEODORI 
DE      MAYERNE,      BARONIS      ALBON^E 
FILIJE,    PETRI    DE    CAVMONT    MAR- 

CHIONIS     DE     CvGNAC     (PATRE     HEN- 

RICO    DE   CAVMONT   MARCHIONE    DE 

CASTELNAVT  &  AvO   lACOBO   NONPAR 

DE  CAVMONT  DVCE  DE  LA  FORCE  PRIMO 
FRANCIS     MARESCALLO     REGIORVM 
EXERCITVVM    LONGVM    IMPERATORE 
FORTISSIMO,  FORTVNATISSIMO  INVIO 

TISSIMO,     NATl)     VXORI     DVLSISSIM^ 

LECTISSIM^E  CHARISSIMJE  .        XVIT" 

POST      NVPTIAS      MENSE      ACERBO      EREPT-?E 

FATO,    CONIVNX    IN    AMORIS    INCONCVSSI, 

&        IRRVPT/E        FIDEI        MONIMENTVM 

MCERENS     POSVIT 

OBIIT   X°IVLII    MDCLIII    IN    PAGO    CHELSEY 
IVXTA    LoNDINVM 

VlXIT  ANNOS  XX  MENSES  VI  DIES  III 
RESVRGET. 
IYN   BEU 

Bowack*  states  that  the  monument  bore  "  the  arms  ot  the  Mareschal  de  la 
Force  and  Sir  Theo.  Mayerne  quarter'd  together,"  but  these  have  dis- 
appeared. 

Sir  Theodore  Mayerne  lived  for  many  years  at  what  was  afterwards 
Lindsey  House.t 

28.  JOHN   BEECH,   1836:   SARAH   BEECH,    1839. 

A  white  marble  tablet  with  cornice,  on  a  black  background  with 
pedimental  head  and  shaped  outline  below. 

29.  SIR  THOMAS   MORE,    1532. 

This  now  consists  of  a  very  low  altar  tomb  with  moulded  cover-stone 
and  base,  under  a  four-centred  moulded  arch,  supporting  a  canopy  with  its 
soffit  panelled  with  tracery.  Octagonal  buttresses,  banded  with  a  moulding 
half-way  up  the  shaft,  occur  on  each  side  and  terminate  in  shields  at  the  level 
of  the  moulded  cornice.  A  third  shield  is  in  the  centre  of  the  cornice,  and 
above  it  is  Sir  Thomas  More's  crest — a  Moor's  head.  The  spandrels  of  the 
arch  are  carved  with  fruit  and  leaf,  and  each  bears  a  further  shield.  The 
cornice  has  a  continuous  line  of  cresting  carved  with  foliage.  The  whole  of 

*  Antiquities  of  Middlesex,  p.  3. 

t  Survey  of  London,  Vol.  IV,  Chelsea,  Pt.  II,  p.  ?S. 

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the  back  of  the  recess  from  the  springing  of  the  arch  down  to  the  base  of 
the  arch  mouldings  is  occupied  by  a  large  marble  slab  which  bears  the  in- 
scription composed  by  More,  and  originally  cut  in  his  own  lifetime.  Above 
the  marble  is  the  date  1532.  It  is  probable  that  no  part  of  the  original 
tomb  remains  other  than  the  inscription  slab,  the  lettering  of  which  has  been 
recut,  and  even  this  is  doubtful,  since  Aubrey  states  in  his  Lives  of  Eminent 
Men*  that  More's  monument  "  being  worn  by  time,  about  1644,  Sir  John 
Lawrence  of  Chelsey  erected  to  his  memory  a  handsome  inscription  of 
marble."  The  whole  monument  was  "  restored,"  that  is  to  say  remade, 
by  Mr.  J.  Faulkner,  statuary  of  Chelsea,  in  1833,  as  recorded  on  a  small 
brass  plate  fixed  to  the  plinth.  An  account  of  the  restoration  appears  in 
the  Gentleman's  Magazine  for  December,  1833. 

The  inscription  at  the  present  time  is  as  follows  : 

THOMAS  MORVS  VRBE  T.ONDINENSI  FAMILIA  NON  CELEBRI  SED  HONESTA 
NATVS  IN  LITERIS  VTCVNQ  |  VERSATVS  ;  QVVM  ET  CAVSAS  ALIQVOT  ANNOS 
JVVENIS  EGISSET  IN  FORO  ET  IN  VRBE  SVA  PRO  SHIREVO  IVS  |  DIXISSET  :  AB 
INVICTISSIMO  REGE  HENRICO  OCTAVO  (CVI  VNI  RfiGVM  OMNIVM  GLORIA  PRIVS 
INAVDITA  CONTIGIT  VT  FIDEI  DEFENSOR  QVALEM  ET  GLADIO  SE  ET  CALAMO 
VERE  PR^STITIT.  MERITO  VOCARETVR)  |  ADSCITVS  IN  AVLAM  EST,  DELECTVSQ  : 
IN  CONSILIVM  ET  CREATVS  EQVES,  PROQV^STOR  PRIMV,  POST  CANCELLARIVS  | 
LANCASTRI^;  TANDEM  ANGLIC  MIRO  PRINCIPIS  FAVORE  FACTVS  EST  SED 
INTERIM  IN  PVBLICO  REGNI  |  SENATV  LECTVS  EST  ORATOR  POPVLI,  PRjETEREA 
LEGATVS  REGIS  NONNVMQVA  FVIT,  ALIAS  ALIBI,  POSTREMO  |  VERO  CAMERACI 
COMES  ET  COLLEGA  IVNCTVS  PRINCIPE  LEGATIONIS,  CvTHBERTO  TvNSTALLO 
TVM  |  LONDINENSI,  MOX  DvNELMENSI  EpISCOPO,  QVO  VIRO  VIX  HABET  ORBIS 
HODIE  QVICQVAM  ERVDITIVS,  PRVDENTIVS,  MELIVS.  Isi  INTER  SVMMOS  ORBIS 
CHRISTIANI  MONARCHAS  RVRSVS  REFECTA  FOEDERA,  REDDITAMQ  ;  MVNDO  |  DIV 
DESIDERATAM  PACEM  ET  L^TISSIMVS  VIDIT  ET  LEGATVS  INTERFVIT 
"  QVAM  SVPERI  PACEM  FIRMENT  FAXINTQ  PERENNEM  " 

IN     HOC    OFFICIORVM     VEL     HONORVM     CVRSV,     QVV.M     ITA    VERSARETVR    VT     NEQ  J 

PRINCEPS  OPTIMVS  OPERAM  |  EJVS  IMPROBARET  NEQ  :  NOBILIBVS  ESSET  INVISVS, 
NEC  INIVCVNDVS  POPVLO,  FVRIBVS  AVTEM  ET  HOMICIDIS 
MOLESTVS.  PATER  EJVS  TANDEM  IOHANNES  MORVS  EQV^S  ET  IN  EVM  JVDICVM 
ORDINEM  I  A  PRINCIPE  COOPTATVS  QVI  REGIVS  CONFESSVS  VOCATVR  ;  HOMO 
CIVILIS,  SVAVIS,  INNOCENS,  MITIS,  MISERICORS,  AEQVVS  ET  INTEGER,  ANNIS 
QVIDEM  GRAVIS,  SED  CORPORE  PLVSQVAM  PRO  jETATE  VIVIDO.  POSTQVAM  |  EO 
PRODVCTAM  SIBI  VITAM  VIDIT,  VT  FILIVM  VIDERIT  ANGLIC  CANCELLARIVM, 
SATIS  IN  TERRA  JAM  |  SE  MORATVM  RATVS,  LIBENS  EMIGRAVIT  IN  CoELVM  AT 
FILIVS,  DEFVNCTO  PATRE,  CVI  QVAMDIU  |  SVPERARAT  COMPARATVS  ET  IVVENIS 
VOCARI  CONSVEVERAT,  ET  IPSE  QVOQ  :  SIBI  VIDEBATVR,  AMISSVM  IAM  PATREM 
REQVIRENS  ET  ^DITOS  EX  SE  LIBEROS  QVATVOR  AC  NEPOTES  VNDECIM  |  RESPICIENS 
APVD  ANIMVM  SVVM  CAEPIT  PERSENESCERE.  AvXIT  HVNC  AFFECTVM  ANIMI 
SVBSECVTA  [  STATIM  VELVT  ADPETENTIS  SENI  SIGNVM,  PECTORIS  VALITVDO 
DETERIOR.  ITAQ  :  MORTALIVM  |  HARVM  RERVM  SATVR,  QVAM  REM  A  PVERO 

*  Vol.  II,  P.  463. 

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IM  Nl    SEMPER   OPTAVERAT,   VT  VLTIMOS    ALIQVOT   VIT^E   |   *VJE   ANNOS    OBTINERET 

KOS,   QVIBVS    HVJVS  VIT^E   NEGOTIIS   PAVLATIM   SE  SEDVCENS   FVTVR/E   POSSIT   | 

IMMORTALITATEM     MKDITARI,     KAM     REM     TANDEM     (SI     CJEPTIS     ANNVAT     UEVS) 

.  rusiMi  PRINCIPIS  |  INCOMPARABILI  BENEFICIO,  RESIGNATIS  HONORI- 

IMPETRAVIT  :   ATQ  :   HOC  SEPVLCHRVM  SIBI,  QVOD  |  MORTIS  EVM  NVMQVAM 

CESS'ANTIS  ADREPERE  QVOTIDIE  COMMONEFACERET,  TRANSLATE  HVC  PRIORIS   | 

•IS  OSSIBVS  EXTRVENDVM  CVRAVIT.     QvOD  NE  SVPERSTES  FRVSTRA  SIBI  FECERIT, 

|    INGRVENTEM  TREPIDVS  MORTEM,  HORREAT,  SED  DESIDERIO  CHRISTI  LIBENS 

OPPETAT,    MORTEMQ  :      |     VT    SIBI    NON     OMNINO     MORTEM,     SED     IANVAM    V1T1E 

LlORIS  INVENIAT  PRECIBVS  EVM  PUS  |  LECTOR  OPTIME  SPIRANTEM  PR^ECOR, 
DEFVNCTVMQ  I  PROSEQVERE. 

Chara  Thomae  jacet  hie  loanna  Vxorcula  Mori 

Qui  tumulum  Aliciae  hunc  deftino  :    quiq  :    mihi 
Vna  mihi  dedit  hoc  coniuncta  virentibvs  annis 

Me  vocet  vt  puer  et  trina  puella  patrem. 
Altera  priuignis  (quae  gloria  rara  ./Vovercae  eft) 

Tarn  pia  quam  gnatis  vix  fuit  vlla  svis, 
Altera  fie  mecum  vixit,  fie  altera  viuit 

Charior  insertum  eft  haec  fit  an  ilia  fuit. 
O  !    fimul,  o  !     luncti  poteramus  viuere  nos  tres 

Quam  bene,  fi  fatum,  religioq  :   sinant. 
At  fociet  tumulus,  fociet  nos,  obfecro  coelum 

Sic  Mors,  non  potuit  quod  dare  vita,  dabit. 

The  blank  space  in  the  inscription  marks  the  position  of  the  words 
"  Hereticisque "  in  More's  original  draft,  and  Mr.  Randall  Davies  sees  in 
their  omission  a  humorous  concession  to  Erasmus,  who  erased  the  words 
when  More  sent  the  inscription  to  him  for  his  approval.  This  may  be  so 
if  they  were  omitted  on  the  original  stone,  but  against  this  view  it  must  be 
remarked  that  they  are  quoted  by  Weever,  who,  although  he  says  the  inscrip- 
tion is  "  now  hardly  to  be  read,"  gives  a  version  including  these  words. 

Arms :  On  the  centre  shield  are:  Quarterly  i  &  4,  argent,  a  cheveron 
engrailed  between  3  moor-cocks  sable,  crests  and  legs  gules  (More)  ;  2  &  3, 
argent,  on  a  cheveron  between  3  unicorns'  heads  erased  sable  3  besants, 
impaling  ermine,  a  fess  cheeky  or  and  azure  (Arden— More's  second  wife). 

The  shield  to  the  left  bears  More  (quarterly  as  above)  impaling  argent 
a  fess  between  three  galloping  colts  sable  (Colt — More's  first  wife).  The 
shields  in  the  spandrels  bear  More  and  Colt  respectively. 

The  monument,  as  stated  in  the  inscription,  was  raised  by  Sir  Thomas 
More  to  his  first  wife,  Jane,  with  the  intention  that  he  and  his  second  wife 
should  lie  beneath  the  same  tomb.  It  is  stated  by  Weever  that  Sir  Thomas 
More's  body,  which  after  his  execution  was  buried  in  the  Tower,  was  dis- 
interred and  brought  to  Chelsea.  Mr.  Randall  Davies*  has  carefully  examined 

*  Chelsea  Old  Church,  pp.  101-104.    F°r  More's  connection  with  Chelsea  see  Survey  of 
London,  Vol.  IV,  p.  18. 

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the  evidence  and  is  of  opinion  that  the  removal  of  the  body  did  not  take  place, 
and  that  the  head  of  Sir  Thomas  More,  which  was  exposed  on  London  Bridge, 
was  placed  by  his  daughter  Margaret  in  the  Roper  vault  at  Canterbury. 

30.  JANE  TYNDALE,    1842. 

31.  CHARLES   MILLER,    1817. 

The  above  are  two  white  marble  inscription  tablets  surmounted  by 
a  moulded  cornice  and  funeral  urn  on  a  background  of  black  marble  with 
pediment-shaped  head. 

Charles  Miller  was  a  son  of  Philip  Miller,  the  curator  of  the  Chelsea 
Physic  Garden  and  author  of  the  Gardeners'  Dictionary.  He  was  buried 
with  his  father  in  the  churchyard. 

32.  ELIZABETH   STEWART,   1717. 
THOMAS   STEWART,   1722. 
THOMASIN  DAMARR,   1758. 

This  is  a  finely  designed  tablet  in  white  marble  and  consists  of  an 
inscribed  slab  flanked  by  two  fluted  pilasters  with  foliated  capitals  and 
moulded  bases.  The  slab  projects  on  each  side  beyond  the  pilasters,  and  is 
finished  by  carved  consoles.  The  capitals  occupy  the  height  of  the  frieze 
in  the  horizontal  entablature  above,  and  support  the  cornice  over  which  is 
a  segmental  pediment.  A  funeral  urn  and  two  lamps,  all  with  flames,  are 
•placed  on  the  pediment,  and  in  front  of  the  tympanum  is  an  achievement 
of  arms.  The  pilasters  stand  on  a  horizontal  scalloped  shelf  over  a  carved 
apron  composed  of  two  console  brackets,  a  scallop  shell  and  a  winged  cherub. 

The  inscription  reads  : 

Here  lyes  the  Body  of 

ELIZABETH  STEWART 

Wife  of  THOMAS  STEWART  of  Barbados  Stewart. 

March* 

who  departed  this  life  the  ig"1 

Day  of  February  1717 

Aged  55  years. 

Here  alfo  lyes  the  Body  of  the  faid 

THOMAS  STEWART 

who  departed  this  life  the  2d 

Day  of  November  1722 

Aged  56. 

Also  THOMASIN  DAMARR 

Daughter  of  the  above 

ELIZABETH  STEWART 

died  April  3oth  1758 
Aged  70. 

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11-  :  Or,  a  fess  cheeky  argent  and  azure  within  a  double  tressure 
counter-flowered  gules  (Stewart),  impaling  sable,  on  a  cross  between  4  fleurs- 
de-lis  argent  5  pheons  azure.  Motto  :  NOBILIS  IRA. 

Thomas  Stewart  was  a  benefactor  to  the  church,  and  he  lived  at 
No.  32  Cheyne  Row,  where  Thomasin  Damarr  lived  after  him.  (See 
Survey  of  London,  Vol.  IV.  Chelsea,  Pt.  II,  p.  67.) 

The  Lawrence  Chapel.     East  Wall. 

33.    SIR  JOHN  LAWRENCE,   1638. 

An  inscribed  slab  of  touchstone,  or  black  marble,  is  surrounded  by  a 
wide  border  of  alabaster  carved  with  arabesque  ornament  ;  a  circular 
column  of  touch  with  alabaster  base  and  capital  of  the  Corinthian  order 
stands  on  each  side,  the  whole  being  supported  by  a  moulded  ledge  of  black 
marble  with  a  shield  of  arms  in  the  centre.  A  simple  moulded  cornice 
rests  directly  on  the  capitals  and  the  carved  border,  but  is  cut  away  in  the 
centre  for  an  achievement  of  arms,  which  extends  into  the  tympanum 
under  the  segmental  pediment  that  crowns  the  design. 

The  inscription  reads : 

SACRED  TO  THE  MEMORY 

OF  S"  IOHN  LAVRENCE  LATE  OF  IVER  IN  YE  COVNTY 
OF  BVCKS  KNIGHT  &  BARONET  WHO  MARRIED  GRISSELL 
DAVGHTER  &  COHEIRE  OF  GERVASE  GlBBON  OF  BENENDEN 
IN  THE  COVNTY  OF  KENT  EsQ  BY  WHOM  HE  HAD  ISSVE 

SEVEN    SONS    AND    FOVRE    DAVGHTERS    H££    DECEASED    THE 

xn™  OF  NOVEMB".  1638.    AGED  50  YEARES. 

WHEN  BAD  MEN  DY  &  TVRNE  TO  THEIR  LAST  SLEEPE 
\YHAT  STIR  THE  POETS  AND  INGRAVERS  KEEPE 
BY  A  FAIND  SKILL,  TO  PILE  THEM  VP  A  NAME 

WlTH    TERMES    OF    GOOD    &    IVST,    OVT    LASTING    FAME 

ALAS  POORE  MEN,  SVCH  HAVE  MOST  NEEDE  OF  STONE 
AND  EPITAPHS.     THE  GOOD  (INDEED)  LACK  NONE 
THEIRE  OWNE  TRVE  WORTH'S  ENOVGH  TO  GIVE  A  GLORY 
VNTO  TH'  VNCANKERD  RECORDS  OF  THEIRE  STORY 

SVCH    WAS    THE    MAN    LYES    HEERE    YET    DOTH    PERTAKE 

OF  VERSE  AND  STONE  BVT  TIS  FOR  FASHON  SAKE. 

Arms  :  Argent,  a  ragged  cross  gules ;  on  a  chief  azure,  3  leopards' 
heads  or  (Lawrence).  Crest  :  a  demi-turbot. 

The  shield  at  the  base  bears  Lawrence  impaling  sable,  a  leopard 
rampant  between  3  scallops  or  (Gibbon). 

For  the  connection  between  the  Lawrence  family  and  Chelsea,  see 
Survey  of  London,  Vol.  IV,  Pt.  II,  p.  58,  and  Mr.  Randall  Davies'  Chelsea 
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Old  Church.    Inscriptions  commemorating  the  wife  and  two  children  of  Sir 
John  Lawrence  are  give.n  with  the  floor  slabs  on  pp.  55-6. 

Lawrence  Chapel.     North  Wall. 

34.  THOMAS   LAWRENCE,   1593. 

A  wall  tablet  with  two  groups  of  kneeling  figures,  each  beneath  a 
semi-circular  arch,  to  the  left  the  effigies  of  Thomas  Lawrence  and  three 
sons,  and  to  the  right  those  of  his  wife,  six  daughters,  and  the  figures  of  two 
babies  by  her  side.  The  arches  rest  on  moulded  responds  which  continue 
as  a  dado  across  the  back  of  the  monument.  Over  the  arches  is  an  architrave 
and  frieze,  but  the  cornice  and  sections  of  the  rest  of  the  entablature  are 
projected  forward  over  three  Corinthian  columns,  which  stand  free.  The 
figures  are  on  cushions  on  a  deep  moulded  ledge,  which  breaks  forward 
beneath  the  columns  and  over  three  console  brackets.  Between  these 
brackets  are  two  inscription  panels.  There  is  a  shield  of  arms  in  the  spandrel 
between  the  two  arches  and  behind  the  centre  column.  A  large  achieve- 
ment of  arms  in  a  circular  medallion  of  strapwork  crowns  the  tablet,  and  two 
smaller  shields  on  backgrounds  of  strapwork  stand  each  side  upon  the 
cornice. 

The  inscription  reads  : 

THE  YEARES  WHERIN   I  Liv'o  WEARE  FIFTY  FOWRE 
OCTOBER  TWENTYE  EYGHT  DID  END  MY  LIFE 
CHILDREN  FIVE  OF  ELEVEN,  GoD  LEFT  IN  STORE 
SOLE  COMFORT  OF  THEYR  MOTHER  &  MY  WIFE. 

THE  WORLD  CAN  SAY  WHAT  I  HAVE  BIN  BEFORE 
WHAT  I  AM  NOW  EXAMPLES  STILL  ARE  RIFE 
THVS  THOMAS  LARRANCE  SPEKES  TO  TYMES  ENSVING 
THAT  DEATH  IS  SVRE  &  TYME  IS  PAST  RENVING. 

Arms  :  The  arms  above  the  tablet  are  those  of  Lawrence  (see  No.  33 
above)  ;  to  the  left  and  right  are  the  shields  of  the  Merchant  Adventurers' 
and  the  Goldsmiths'  Companies.  The  shield  in  the  arch  spandrel  bears 
Lawrence  impaling  :  Quarterly  I  &  4,  Party  palewise  azure  and  gules,  a 
saltire  or  (Cage)  ;  2  &  3,  gules,  a  swan  flying  argent  (Dale). 

35.  SARA   COLVILE,    1631.* 

This  monument  shows  a  ha'lf-length  alabaster  figure  of  the  deceased, 
attired  in  grave  clothes,  and  rising  from  a  coffin  of  black  marble.  There  is 
a  similar  monument  to  Lady  Salter  in  Iver  Church,  Bucks  (1631),!  and 
another  to  Constance  Whitney  in  St.  Giles',  Cripplegate  (1628). 

*  The  date  on  the  monument  is  a  mistake.     Mrs.  Colvile  was  buried  on  l8th  April,  1632. 
|   Royal  Commission  on  Historical  Monuments  (England).   Report  on  Buckinghamshire  (South), 
\  i>l.  1,  p.  221. 

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At  the  back  of  the  figure  is  a  shallow  semi-circular  headed  recess 
beneath  a  canopy  formed  of  a  pediment  and  inscribed  frieze  standing  well 
above  the  arch,  and  brought  forward  on  curved  brackets.  These  brackets 
separate  the  frieze  from  the  architrave,  which  is  thus  out  of  position.  A 
portion  of  the  latter  projects  forward  where  the  brackets  rest  on  free  Doric 
columns,  and  then  the  architrave  continues  (a  little  above  the  springing 
line)  to  form  the  responds  of  the  arch  and  is  carried  round  the  arch  itself. 
The  space  between  the  extrados  of  the  arch  and  the  canopy  is  filled  with 
carving  representing  the  trumpet  call  of  the  Day  of  Judgment.  The  columns 
rest  on  carved  brackets  above  a  stone  coffin,  and  are  flanked  by  carved 
consoles.  The  coffin  is  inscribed  and  rests  on  a  moulded  ledge,  beneath 
which  is  the  chief  inscribed  panel  of  black  marble  within  a  shaped  frame  of 
alabaster  bearing  a  shield  of  arms. 

In  the  pediment  and  above  on  each  side  are  shields  of  arms. 

The  inscription  is  as  follows  : 

SACRED 

TO    YK    BLESSED    MEMORY    OF    THAT 

VNSTAYNED    COPY    &    RARE    EXAMPLE 

OF    ALL    VIRTVE 

SARA 

WIFE  TO  RICHARD  COLVILE  OF  NEVTON 
IN  YE  ILE  OF  ELY  IN  YE  COVNTY  OF 
CAMBRIDG  ESQ  DAVGHTER  TO 
THOMAS  LAVRENCE 

OF    IVER    IN    YE    COVNTY    OF    BvCKINGHA    ESQ 

WHO    IN    Y*    40™    YEARE    OF    HER 
AGE    RECEIVED    YK    GLORIOVS    REWARD 

OF    HER    CONSTANT    PIETY 

BEING    Y'    HAPPY    MOTHER    OF    8    SONS 

AND    2    DAVGHTERS. 

Wonder  not  (reader)  how  this  stone 
Should  be  Jo  /mooth  &  pure  :   there's  one 
That  lyes  within't,  by  who/e  fayre  light 
It  /nines  Jo  cleere  &  looks  Jo  bright 
The  Cutters  art  could  only  give 
A  forme  unto't :  no  power  to  live  ; 
Nor  /hall  it  ever  loo/e  this  grace 
Till  /he  arise  &  leave  the  place  ; 
For  losse  of  whome  yc  mournfull  Vrne 
Shall  fire,  and  to  Cynders  turne. 

SHE    DYED    Y"    I7T"    OF   APRILL 

1631" 

*  See  Note,  p.  29. 

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This  text  appears  upon  the  coffin  : 

AND    YOV    SHALL    KNOW    THAT    I    AM    THE 
LORD,    WHEN    I    HAVE    OPENED    YOVR    GRAVES 
O    MY    PEOPLE    AND    BROVGHT    YOV    VP 
OVT    OF    YOVR    SEPVLCHRES.       EZEKIEL    37 

VERS    1 3 

and  on  the  frieze  : 

FOR    THE    TRVMPET    SHALL    BLOWE    AND    THE    DEAD    SHALL    BE 
RAISED    VP    INCORRVPTIBLE    AND    WEE    SHALL    BE    CHANGED. 

i  CORINTHIANS  15 
VERS  52 

Arms  :  The  shield  in  the  pediment  is  that  of  Lawrence  (see  No.  33), 
with  crest  and  ribbon  mantling. 

The  shields  above  the  cornice  are  both  as  follows  :  Quarterly  I  &  4, 
azure,  a  lion  argent,  a  label  of  3  points  gules  (Colvile)  ;  2,  argent,  3  chess 
rooks  gules  (Walsingham)  ;  3,  argent,  on  a  bend  gules  a  besant  (Pinchbeck) 
impaling  Lawrence.  Two  crests  are  carved  above  each  shield  (a)  a  lion 
(b)  a  chess  rook.  A  shield  at  the  base  gives  azure,  a  lion  argent,  a  label  of 
5  points  gules. 

Sarah  Colvile  was  the  eldest  daughter  of  Thomas  Lawrence  (34)  and 
married  Richard  Colvile  of  Newton,  in  the  Isle  of  Ely. 

36.    WILLIAM   FREND   DE   MORGAN,   1917. 

TO    THE    MEMORY    OF 

WILLIAM  FREND  DE  MORGAN 

ARTIST POTTER INVENTOR NOVELIST 

BORN     l6TH    NOVEMBER    1839  DIED    X5TH    JANUARY    1917 

WHO  DID  MUCH  OF  HIS  BEST  WORK  IN  CHEYNE-ROW,  THE  VALE 

AND  CHURCH  ST  CHELSEA WHERE  HE  DIED 

Recreating  in  Ceramic  work  upon  his  own  vigorous  designs  the 
colour  of  the  Persian  &  the  lustre  of  the  great  Umbrian  craftsmen 
Enriching  literature  by  his  faithful  &  sympathetic 
presentment  of  homely  and  wry  human  character 
And  beloved  by  all  who  knew  his  breadth  of  intellectual 
interest,  his  catholic  sympathy,  genial  humour  &  lambent  wit 

THIS    TABLET    IS    DEDICATED    BY    SOME    OF    HIS 
CHELSEA    AND    PERSONAL    FRIENDS 


Colvile. 


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37     MARGARET  HEWITT,    1762.    HENRY  HEWITT     1770. 

A  wall  tablet  in  the  form  of  a  cartouche  fixed  on  the  northern  respond 
of  the  arch  dividing  the  Chapel  from  the  nave. 

Near  the  Pulpit 

South  of  the  middle  Hie 

lies  the  Body  of 

MARGARET 

the  beloved  Wife  of 

MR.  HENRY  HEWITT 

of  this  PARISH 

died  January  17th  1762 

Aged  58 

AHo  the  faid 

HENRY  HEWITT 

who  died  May  27 

1771 
Aged  75 

38.  HON.  CONRAD   DILLON,   1901. 

The  More  Chapel.     East  Wall. 

39.  EDMUND  STAUNTON,   1835. 

A  small  stone  tablet  carved  with  Gothic  ornament. 

40.  SIR  ROBERT  STANLEY,   1632. 

An  elaborate  altar  tomb  of  alabaster  and  black  marble,  very 
beautifully  executed,  stands  before  the  east  window.  A  shaped  sarcophagus 
with  deep-moulded  plinth  displays  in  front  three  panels  framed  with 
enriched  beading,  the  two  side  panels  bearing  inscriptions.  Around  the 
upper  member  of  the  moulded  cover  stone  is  another  inscription  giving  the 
name  and  date  of  death,  etc.  On  the  sarcophagus  stand  three  richly  carved 
pedestals  bearing  elaborate  funeral  urns,  and  between  these  are  two  alabaster 
draped  figures  which  have  the  appearance  of  having  been  an  addition  to  the 
original  design. 

The  central  pedestal  has  a  portrait  bust  of  Sir  Robert  Stanley  within 
an  elliptical  recess,  above  a  cherub  with  outstretched  wings.  The  side 
pedestals,  which  are  smaller  in  size,  have  in  similar  recesses  portraits  of  his 
two  infant  children,  Ferdinando  and  Henrietta,  the  latter  having  a  necklace 
with  the  Stanley  badge  as  pendant.  This  badge,  an  eagle  carrying  a  child 
in  its  talons,  forms  the  finial  to  the  central  urn,  only  here  the  eagle  is  repre- 
sented over  a  nest  in  which  the  child  lies.  The  heraldic  work  on  the  monu- 
ment is  very  profuse  and  finely  carved.  The  Stanley  shield  is  shown  on  the 

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body  of  the  central  urn  ;  on  each  side  of  its  pedestal  is  a  coat  with  numerous 
quarterings  described  below.  On  the  outer  sides  of  the  smaller  pedestals 
are  carved  cartouches,  enclosing  (left)  an  oval  shield  bearing  Stanley 
differenced  with  a  crescent,  and  (right)  a  lozenge  bearing  Stanley  impaling 
Gorges.  One  of  the  figures  holds  a  coronet,  and  in  the  other  hand  a  shield 
with  the  Stanley  badge,  while  the  other  displays  a  banner  bearing  the  family 
quarterings. 

The  inscriptions  are  as  follows  : 

TO    THE    FAIRE     MEMORIE    OF    THE    TRVELY    HONORABLE 

SK    ROBERT    STANLEY    KT    OF    THE    NOBLE    ORDER    OF 
YE  BATH  AND  SEACOND  SONNE  TO  YE  RIGHT 

HOBLE  WILLIAM  EARLE  OF  DARBIE  WHOE  DECEASED 

YE  3  DAY  OF  JANNARY  AN°  DN~I  1632 

On  the  left-hand  panel : 

To  say  a  STANLEY  lyes  here  that  a  lone 

Were  Epitaph  enough  noe  Brass  noe  Stone 

Noe  glorious  Tombe  noe  Monumentall  Hearse 

Noe  guilded  Trophy  or  lamp  labourd  verse 

Can  dignifie  this  Graue  or  sett  it  forth 

Like  the  Immortall  fame  of  his  owne  Worth 

Then  reader  fixe  not  here  but  quitt  this  Roome 

And  flye  to  Abram's  bossome  theres  his  Tombe  Stanley. 

There  rests  his  Soule  &  for  his  other  parts 

They  are  imbalm'd  &  lodg'd  in  good  men's  harts 

A  brauer  monument  of  Stone  or  Lyme 

No  Arte  can  rayse  for  this  shall  out  last  tyme. 

On  the  right-hand  panel  : 

To  YE  LASTINGE  MEMORIE  OF  TWO  OF  HIS  CHILDREN 
THAT  IS   TO  SAY   FARDINANDO   STANLEY   HIS  SONNE  & 
HENRITE    MARIA   STANLEY    HIS    DAVGHTER   WHOE    LYE 
BVRYED  WITH   IN   THIS   HIS  SEPVLCHER 

The  Eagle  Death  greedie  of  some  good  prey 
Wth  nimble  Eyes  found  where  these  Infants  laye 
He  truste  them  in  his  Tallents  and  conveyde 
There  Soules  to  Heauen  &  here  theire  ashes  layde 
Lett  no  prophane  Hand  then  these  Reliques  seuer 
But  as  they  lye  soe  lett  them  rest  for  euer. 

Arms  :  On  centre  urn,  argent,  on  a  bend  azure  3  stags'  heads  caboshed 
or,  a  crescent  for  difference.    On  the  left  of  the  centre  pedestal,  quarterly 

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•  it  1 1  :    i,  Stanley  ;   2,  or,  on  a  chief  indented  azure  3  besants  (Lathom)  ;   3, 

gules,  3  men's  legs  bent  at  the  knee,  and  joined  at  the  thigh,  garnished  and 

spurred  (Isle  of  Alan)  ;    4,  cheeky  or  and  azure  (Warren)  ;    5,  gules,  z  lions 

passant  argent  (Strange  of  Knockin)  ;    6,  argent,  a  fess  and  quarter  gules 

(Woodville)  ;   7,  or,  a  cross  engrailed  sable  (Moyne)  ;    8,  azure,  a  lion  argent 

(Monhault)  ;    9,  Barry  of  ten  argent  and  gules,  a  lion  or  crowned  gules 

(Brandon)  ;    10,  azure,  a  millrind  cross  or  (Bruyn)  ;    II,  Lozengy  gules  and 

ermine  (Rokeby).    On  the  right  of  the  centre  pedestal  the  same  quarterings 

as  above  impaling  quarterly  of  6  :   I  &  6,  argent,  a  whirlpool  azure  (Gorges)  ; 

2,  lozengy  or  and  gules,  a  cheveron  gules  (Gorges,  ancient)  ;   3,  argent,  on  a 

chief  gules  3  besants  (Russell)  ;   4,  gules,  a  lion  ermine  (Old  hall)  ;    5,  argent, 

a  cheveron  sable  between  3  caters  on  the  dice  (Engloes).    The  banner  shown 

in   reverse   bears  the  same  quarterings  as  the  shield  on  the  left   of   the 

centre  pedestal,  except   that  in   the  coat  of  Woodville  the  quarter  is  not 

reversed.    The  smaller  pedestals  have  left,  Stanley  ;   right,  Stanley  impaling 

Gorges. 

Sir  Robert  Stanley  lived  at  Stanley  House,  now  St.  Mark's  College. 
(See  Survey  of  London,  Vol.  IV,  Chelsea,  Pt.  II,  pp.  43,  44.) 

41.  CATHERINE  COUNTESS  OF  HUNTINGDON,   1620. 

A  small  rectangular  slab  of  marble,  formerly  part  of  the  monument 
of  the  Duchess  of  Northumberland  (see  No.  45),  is  now  fixed  to  the  east 
wall  of  the  More  Chapel.  The  following  is  the  inscription  : 

CATHERINE 

Countefs  of  Huntington,  2:d 

daughter  of  JOHN  late  Duke 

of  Northumberland,  dyed 

without  Yffue,  May  ye  2:d  1620 

Aged  72.  &  is  below  Inter'd 

by  her  Mother 

More  Chapel     North  Wall. 

42.  MICHAEL   BENTLEY,  1837,  and  MARIA  SUSANNAH  his  wife, 

1828. 

JOHN  BENTLEY,   1835. 
MARY  BENTLEY,   1837. 

A  marble  tablet  of  Gothic  design. 

43-    SIR  ARTHUR  GORGES,   1625. 

.     A  brass  plate,  now  fixed  to  the  north  wall,  is  engraved  with  the  kneeling 
ttigies  of  Sir  Arthur  Gorges  and  his  six  sons  on  one  side  of  a  small  table,  and 
his  wife  and  five  daughters  on  the  other. 

This  plate  belonged  to.  a  monument  which,  according  to  Bowack,* 

*  -Intiquities  of  Middlesex,  p.  9. 

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was  "  rais'd  about   Four  Foot  from  the  Ground,"  and  bore  the  following 
inscription  : 

In  Obitum  Illustrissimi  Viri  Domini 

Arthuri  Gorges  Equitis  Aurati  Epicedium. 

Te  deflent,  nati,  natae,  celeberrime  conjux, 
Te  dolet  arguta»  maesta  Caterva  Scholse. 
Ast  Lucanus  ait,  se  vivo,  non  periturum 
Arthurum  Gorges,  transtulit  ipse  Deus ; 
Aethereas  cupiens  Arthurus  adire  per  auras, 
Et  Novus  ex  ejus  Nomine  natus  adest. 

Another  brass  plate  from  this  monument  is  also  preserved  below  the 
first.  It  bears  an  achievement  of  arms  :  Quarterly,  I,  lozengy  or  and  gules, 
a  cheveron  gules  (Gorges,  ancient)  ;  2,  argent,  a  whirlpool  azure  (Gorges)  ; 
3,  argent,  on  a  chief  gules  3  besants  (Russell)  ;  4,  sable,  3  fusils  fesswise 
between  3  stags''  heads  argent  (Budockshead),  impaling  argent,  6  crosslets 
fitchy,  on  a  chief  azure  2  molets  or  pierced  gules  (Clinton).  Crest  :  a  grey- 
hound's head  erased. 

Sir  Arthur  Gorges  lived  at  Gorges  House  (Milman  House).  (See 
Survey  of  London,  Vol.  IV,  Chelsea,  Pt.  II,  pp.  22,  45.) 

44.    ARTHUR  GORGES,    1668. 

Faulkner  *  "  describes  a  handsome  table  monument,  with  arms  and 
carving"  which  was  taken  down  in  the  year  1815  to  make  room  for  pews 
(see  Plate  No.  59),  and  of  this  only  three  inscribed  slabs  of  black  marble 
remain.  The  monument  stood  in  the  south  aisle  near  Lady  Dacre's  tomb, 
but  its  covering  slab  lies  now  in  the  pavement  in  the  north-west  angle  of 
the  More  Chapel.  It  bears  an  achievement  of  arms  :  Quarterly  of  6— 
i  &  6,  Gorges  ;  2,  Gorges  (ancient)  ;  3,  Russell ;  4,  gules,  a  lion  ermine  (Old 
hall)  ;  5,  argent,  a  cheveron  sable  between  three  caters-on-the-dice  (Engloes). 
The  two  other  inscribed  slabs  are  fixed  to  the  north  wall  of  the  More 
Chapel  below  the  brasses  of  Sir  Arthur  Gorges,  and  bear  the  following 
lines : 

Here  lyes  interred  the  body  of  that  Generous 
and  worthy  Gen1  Arthur  Gorges  Esq.  eldest 
sone  of  Sr  Arthur  Gorges  Kn'  the  last  surui- 
uing  branch  of  the  first  male  line  of  that  Honbl 
Family  who  departed  this  life  the  8th  of  Appill 

1668 

He  maryed  Dame  Mary  one  of  the  Dau- 
ghters and  Coheires  of  Paul  Lord  Viscount 
Banning  she  first  maryed  to  William  Lord 
Grandison  afterwards  to  Charles  Earle  of 
Angelesey  and  thirdly  to  the  sayd  deseced 
Arthur  Gorges  whom  She  suruiued  ~~  - 


Gorges  (ancient). 


Chelsea  and  its  Environs,  Vol.  I,  p.  234. 


Gorges  (modem). 


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And  departed   this  life 

Lyes  here  buried  with  her  louing  Husband 

To    WHOS    &    HIR    OM     MlMOREY    SHE    ERECTED    THIS    ToMBE 

Here  slecpes  and  feeles  noe  preffure  of  ye  stone 
he,  that  had  all  the  Gorges  Soules  in  One 
Here  the  ingenious,  valiant  Arthur  lies 
to  be  bcwaild  by  Marble  and  Our  eyes 
By  most  beloud.  but  LOUE  cannot  retriue 
dead  frinds,  Has  power  to  Kill  not  make  aliue. 
Let  him  rest  free  from  envy,  as  from  paine 
when  all  the  Gorges  rise  heele  rise  againe 
This  last  rctireing  rome  his  owne  doth  call 
who  after  death,  has  that  and  Heau'n  has  all 
Liue  Arthur  by  the  Spirit  of  thy  Fame 
Chelsey  it  self  must  dy  before  thy  Name. 

More  Chapel.    South  Wall. 

45.    JANE,  DUCHESS  OF  NORTHUMBERLAND,   1555-6- 

This  tomb  is  much  mutilated,  but  it  must  have  been  a  beautiful 
example  of  a  Tudor  monument,  and  closely  resembles  that  of  Chaucer 
in  Westminster  Abbey,  erected  by  Brigham  in  1556.  It  originally  con- 
sisted of  an  altar  tomb  (which  has  been  removed)  within  a  recess  partly 
cut  into  the  south  wall  beneath  the  easternmost  window  of  the  Chapel.  The 
tomb  does  not  appear  to  have  filled  the  recess  but,  like  Chaucer's  tomb,  a 
space  was  left  at  the  west  end  for  the  officiating  priest.  A  portion  of  the 
panelled  front  of  the  tomb  is  built  into  the  wall,  and  a  large  fragment  of  the 
moulded  coping  slab  of  Purbeck  is  preserved,  showing  the  rough  surface 
beneath  the  effigy.  This  recess  has  side  walls  of  stone  panelled  above  the 
tomb-level,  with  two  rows  of  three  panels  arched  and  cusped.  The  western 
wall  stands  partly  free,  and  has  enough  width  on  its  western  face  for  two 
panels  one  above  the  other.  In  front  of  the  walls  are  circular  shafts,  carved 
with  a  reticulated  pattern,  having  octagonal  moulded  caps  and  bases,  and  the 
uiMern  shaft  stands  on  an  octagonal  base  taken  to  the  floor-level,  with  arched 
and  cusped  panels  on  each  face.  The  cap  and  base  mouldings  are  carried 
along  the  wing  and  back  walls.  The  recess  is  covered  by  a  flat  slab  of  stone, 
the  soffit  of  which  is  hollowed  and  carved  with  a  representation  of  four  bays 
of  fan-traceried  vaulting,  each  bay  having  formerly  had  a  pendant  in  the 
centre.  The  whole  of  the  front  part  of  the  canopy  has  disappeared, 
but  is  represented  in  the  interesting  drawing  from  the  Lansdowne 
MSS.  at  the  British  Museum,  reproduced  on  Plate  65,  and  is  further 
illustrated  by  an  original  drawing  preserved  in  Sir  Edward  Coates'  collection 
(Plate  64). 

The  back  wall  was  divided  into  three  portions  by  miniature  buttresses, 
the  side  parts  corresponding  with  one  bay  of  the  canopy  vault,  and  the  centre 
with  two.  In  this  middle  division  is  an  inscription  slab  of  alabaster,  rect- 

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angular  above,   but  with  shaped   angles   below  and  finished  with   a   plain 
fillet.    The  inscription,  which  is  beautiful  incised  lettering,  reads  : 

HERE  LYETH  YE  RIGHT  NOBLE  AND  EXELLENT  PRYNCES 
LADY  IANE  GVYLDEFORD  LATE  DVCHES  OF  NORTHV- 
BERLAND  DAVGHTER  AND  SOLE  hEYRE  VNTO  YE  RIGHT 
HONORABLE  SR  EDWARD  GVYLDEFORD   KNiGHT  LORD 
WARDEYN  OF  Y.E  FYVE  FORTES  YE  WHICH  Sr  EDWARD 
WAS  SONNE  TO  YE  RIGHT  HONORABLE  Sr  RICHARD 
GVYLDEFORD  SOME.TYMES  KNIGHT  AND  COMPA- 
NION OF  YE  MOST  NOBLE  ORDRE  OF  YE  GARTOR  AND 

THE    SAID    DVCHES    WAS    WYFE    TO    THE    RicHT    HiGH 
AND    MiGHTY    PRiNCE    IOHN     DVDLEY    LATE    DVKE 
OF    NORTHVBERLAND    BY    WHO1SE    SHE    HAD    YSSEW 

xiii  cmLDREN  THAT  is  TO  WETE  viii  SONNES  AND 

V    DAWGHTERS    AND    AFTER    SHE    HAD    LYVED    YERES 
XLvi    SHE    DEPARTED    THIS    TRANsiTORY    WORLD    AT 
HER    MANER    OF    CHELSE    YE    XXH    DAYE    OF    IANVARY    iN 
YF    SECOND    YERE    OF    YE    REiGNE    OF    OWR    SO- 
VEREYNE    LADY    QVENE    MARY    THE 

FIRST    AND    IN    A°    MDLV    ON 
WHOSE    SOVLE    IESV    HAVE    MRCY 

• 

Over  the  inscription  is  a  circular  brass  plate  engraved  with  the  arms 
of  Sir  Edward  Guildford  within  the  Garter  :  Quarterly  I  &  4,  or,  a  saltire 
between  4  martlets  sable  (Guildford)  ;  2  &  3,  argent,  a  bend  engrailed  gules 
and  a  chief  sable  (Halden).  To  the  left  of  the  inscription  is  another  shield 
on  a  brass  plate  bearing  Guildford  and  Halden  quarterly  impaling  quarterly. 
I,  argent,  a  fess  dancetty  sable  (West)  ;  2,  quarterly  i.  &  iv.,  gules,  a  lion 
within  an  orle  of  crosslets  fitchy  argent  (la  Warr),  ii.  &  iii.,  azure,  3  leopards' 
heads  jessant-de-lis  argent  (Cantelupe)  ;  3,  barry  or  and  azure,  a  chief  paly 
and  quarters  gyronny,  with  an  inescutcheon  argent  (Mortimer).  4  gules,  3 
bendlets  enhanced  or  (Grelle). 

To  the  right  of  the  inscription  is  the  matrix  of  a  lozenge-shaped 
shield,  which  is  shown  on  a  drawing  in  the  Chelsea  Public  Library  to  have 
contained  the  arms  of  the  Duchess.  For  the  shields  formerly  on  the  canopy, 
see  the  reproduction  from  the  Lansdowne  MSS.  (Plate  65). 

In  the  left-hand  compartment  of  the  back  of  the  monument  is  the 
matrix  of  a  brass  which  originally  bore  the  kneeling  effigies  of  Lady  Jane's 
sons.  The  ribbon  on  which  their  names  are  inscribed  in  black  letter  alone 
remains  ;  it  runs  as  follows,  beginning  with  the  youngest  : 

Charles,  Harry,  Gilford,  Robert,  Ambrose,  John,  Thomas  &  Harry. 

The  right-hand  compartment  still  retains  a  brass  bearing  the  kneeling 
figures  of  the  Duchess  and  her  five  daughters,  with  their  names  inscribed 
on  a  ribbon  above  : 


Guildford. 


Mary,  M'garet,  Katerin,  Kat'yn,  Temperanes. 


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The  Duchess  is  attired  in  a  mantle  bearing  her  arms  in  enamel : 
quarterly  of  6  :  I,  Guildford  quartering  Halden  ;  2,  West;  3,  Le  Warr ; 
4,  Cantt-lupe  ;  5,  Mortimer  ;  6,  Grcllc. 

John  Dudley,  Duke  of  Northumberland,  received  the  grant  of 
Henry  VIII's  Manor  House  in  1553,*  but  he  was  executed  the  same  year 
in  consequence  of  his  attempt  to  place  Lady  Jane  Grey  and  his  son  Guildford 
<>n  the  throne.  The  Duchess  lived  on  at  the  manor  house  until  her  death  in 
1555-6.  Of  her  children,  Harry  lost  his  life  at  the  siege  of  Boulogne,  and 
the  younger  Harry  at  St.  Quentin  ;  John  became  Lord  Lisle  and  Earl  of 
Warwick,  and  died  at  Penshurst  1554;  Ambrose  became  Earl  of  Warwick 
and  lies  buried  in  the  Beauchamp  Chapel,  Warwick,  where  also  lies  Robert, 
created  Earl  of  Leicester,  Queen  Elizabeth's  favourite  ;  Mary  married  Sir 
Henry  Sidney  and  became  the  mother  of  Sir  Philip  Sidney  ;  Catherine 
married  the  Earl  of  Huntingdon,  and  her  memorial  in  Chelsea  Church  has 
been  described  above  (No.  41). 

46.    SIR  WILLIAM  MILMAN,   1713. 

A  tablet  of  white  marble  in  the  form  of  a  cartouche  draped  and  with 
three  winged  cherubs,  one  on  each  side  and  one  at  the  base.  The  upper 
part  is  formed  of  an  excellent  achievement  of  arms  surmounted  by  a  small 
iuneral  urn. 

The  inscription  is  as  follows  : 

D.  O.  M 

et 

Memoriae 

GULIELMI  MILMAN  Equitis  Aurati 
de  Interiori  Templo  LONDINI 

Juris-C1'. 
Qui  Obijt  Chelfeiae  Febr.  3. 

Anno  jEtatis  64 

et  Reparatse  Salutis  1713. 

Pofuit  Mceftifsima  Coniux 

E.  M. 

Arms:  Azure,  3  sinister  gauntlets  argent  (Milman),  impaling  sable, 
a  cheveron  between  3  boys'  heads  with  adders  about  their  necks  (Vaughan). 

In  the  pavement  to  the  north-east  of  the  Dacre  monument  in  the 
s  a  black  marble  leger  stone  with  a  medallion  of  the  above  arms  in  the 
upper  part,  and  the  following  inscription  below  : 

Here  Lyeth 
The  Body  of  S"  WILLIAM  MILMAN  KT 

Barijter  at  Law 

of  the  Inner  Temple 

LONDON 

•  Survey  of  London,  Vol.  II,  Chelsea,  Pt.  I,  p.  72. 
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who  Died  at  his  Houfe  in  CHELSEA 
Febry  ye  3d  in  the  64th  Year  of  his  Age 
Annoque  Dom  1713. 

Alfo  the  Remains  of 

WILLIAM  MILES  Efq' 

Uncle  to  Lady  MlLMAN 

Who  departed  this  life  Jany  25th  1802. 

Aged  76  years. 

Sir  William  Milman  lived  at  Milman  House  (formerly  Gorges  House), 
from  which  Milman  Street  is  named.  (See  Survey  of  London,  Vol.  IV, 
Chelsea,  Ft.  II,  p.  45.) 

47.  WILLIAM   HART,    1785,  and  others  (see  inscription). 

A  plain  rectangular  tablet  of  white  marble  with  moulded  cornice 
and  two  small  brackets,  on  a  background  of  grey  marble.  The  inscription 
runs  : 

Near  this  Place  are  depofited  the  Remains 
of  WILLIAM  HART  Efqr  of  Stapleton,  in  the  County  of  Gloucefter 

Father  in  Law  to  Sir  FRANCIS  MlLMAN  Bar' 
who  departed  this  Life  13th  January  1785.    aged  85  Years 

Alfo  the  Remains  of  GEORGE  HART  Efq' 
who  died  19th  September  1791.     aged  86  Years 

Alfo  the  Remains  of  JOHN  DYER  MlLMAN 

who  died  6th  December  1786.    aged  2  Years  and  10  Months 

And  FRANCES  SOPHIA  MlLMAN  died  1 1*  Decr  1786.    aged  1 1  Months 

And  CHARLES  DYER  MILMAN  died  25*  Auguft  1790.  aged  7  Months 

All  three  Children  of  Sir  FRANCIS  MlLMAN  Bar'  and  Lady  MlLMAN 
Daughter  of  the  above  named  WILLIAM  HART  Efqr. 

48.  HENRY  JAMES,   1916. 

A  rectangular  marble  tablet  with  black  rim  inscribed  : 

IN    MEMORY    of 

HENRY   JAMES    O:M. 

NOVELIST 

BORN  IN  NEW  YORK  1843  :  DIED  IN 
CHELSEA  1916  :  LOVER  AND  INTER- 
PRETER OF  THE  FINE  AMENITIES 
OF  BRAVE  DECISIONS  &  GENEROVS 
LOYALTIES  :  A  RESIDENT  OF  THIS 
PARISH  WHO  RENOUNCED  A 
CHERISHED  CITIZENSHIP  TO  GIVK 
HIS  ALLEGIANCE  TO  ENGLAND  IN 
THE  Ist  YEAR  OF  THE  GREAT  WAR. 

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49.  I'.U  I,    HF.DFORD,    1871. 

50.  A  modern  marble  tablet  with  curved  head  and  a  shield  of  arms  : 
gyronny  argent  and  gules  with  an  inescutcheon  or,  commemorating 

PETER  ELERS,   1753. 
(il.ORGE  ELERS,    1784. 
CARFW  ELERS,   1821. 
WILLIAM   ELERS,   1888. 
\YM   SHRl'BB   ELERS,   1900. 

51.  CATHERINE   MAHON,   1822. 

Nave,    East  Wall 

52.  HENRY  POWELL,    1752:    ELIZABETH  POWELL,    1726. 

A  marble  tablet  in  the  form  of  a  cartouche  with  an  achievement  of 
arms  above  and  a  winged  cherub  at  base,  fixed  to  the  west  face  of  the  northern 
pier  of  the  chancel  arch. 

The  inscription  runs  : 


HENRY  POWELL 

Departed  this  Life  December  yc  8th  1752.    Aged  77 

and  is  here  Interr'd  in  hopes,  of  a  bleffed  Refurrection  ; 

near  the  remains  of  ELIZABETH  his  Wife,  who  was 

A  moft  Excellent  Woman  :   and  Died  April  28tn  1726 

He  was  a  Compleat  Gentleman  and  a  Good  Chriftian 

He  was  likewife,  BlefPd  with  Power  and  Wealth 

which  He  chiefly  exerted  ;  in  the  Service  of 

the  Widow  and  Fatherlefs  : 

And  in  a  long  attendance  on 

his  Sovereign  :   He  behaved  with 

the  highef  t  Honour  and  Fidelity  ; 

and  never  abufed  the 
Great  Confidence  repofe'd  in  him. 

In  Gratitude  to  the  Beft  of  Parents 

this  Monument  was  Erected 

By  their  Eldeft  Daughter, 

ELIZABETH  POWELL 

who  died  unmarried 
April  23d  1774  Aged  62 


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Arms  :  Quarterly  I  &  4,  gules,  a  lion  looking  back  or;  2  &  3  argent, 
3  boars'  heads  sable  (Powell  of  Shropshire).  Impaling  argent,  a  fess  between 
3  stars  azure. 

A  leger  stone  in  the  chancel  is  inscribed  : 


ELIZABETH  POWELL  Died 

the  28th  of  April  1726  PotoeUf 

Alfo 

HENRY  POWELL  Esq'  hufband 

of  the  above  ELIZABETH 

Died  December  the  8th  1752 

Aged  77. 

53.  MARIANNE,   GEORGE   AND  JOHN   DRUMMOND,   1795-6. 

An  elliptical  tablet  of  marble,  with  a  knot  of  ribbon  above,  is  placed 
below  the  last  monument  and  bears  the  following  inscription  : 

In  Memory  of 

MARIANNE  aged  four  Months. 
GEORGE  aged  fix  Years  and 

JOHN  aged  three  Years 

the  beloved  and  lovely  offspring  of 

GEORGE  HAY  DRUMMOND.  A.M. 

Prebendary  of  York,   and 

ELIZABETH  MARGARET  his  Wife 

whofe  Spirits  returned  unto  God 

in  the  Months  of  November  and 

December  1795,  and  January  1796 

and  whofe  mortal  Remains  repofe  together 

within  twelve  feet  South  of  this  Pillar. 

This  Tablet  is  erected 

by  their  affectionate  Parents 

forrowful  yet  always  rejoicing 

that  of  Such  is 

the  Kingdom  of 

Heaven. 

54.  REGINALD   JOHN   NEILD,    1903. 

A  small  cartouche  of  white  marble  to  Reginald  Neild,  who  died  at 
Lindsey  House,  1903. 

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•h  Wall. 

55.  MARY  READ,   1792:    EDWARD   READ,    1812. 

A  tablet  of  white  marble  with  fluted  pilasters  at  each  side  and  a 
moulded  string  above  and  below.  Small  brackets  below  the  pilasters  and 
finials  above  bear  oval  rosettes.  Above  and  beneath  the  tablet  is  a  back- 
ground of  black  marble  with  shaped  outline,  and  against  the  upper  part  is 
a  funeral  urn  in  relief  in  white  marble. 

The  inscription  runs  : 

Near  this  Place  lies  Interred 
MARY  late  Wife  of 

EDWARD  READ  Esquire 

who  died  the  21"  of  January  1792 

Aged  57  Years 

Alfo  the  said  EDWARD  READ 

who  died  the  2nd  of  April,  1812 

Aged  82  Years. 

Edward  Read  is  given  in  the  Rate  Books  as  residing  at  No.  3,  Swan 
Walk,  1777-1794.  (See  Survey  of  London,  Vol.  IV,  Chelsea,  Pt.  I,  p.  14.) 

56.  JAMES  BUCK,    1680. 

This  tablet  has  a  semi-circular  headed  inscription-panel  surrounded 
by  a  moulded  architrave,  with  mitred  ears  carved  with  foliated  ornament. 
Above  is  a  curved  pediment,  beneath  the  cornice  of  which  is  a  shield  of 
arms.  The  horizontal  cornice  breaks  forward  on  each  side  over  console- 
shaped  brackets  which  are  repeated  against  the  wall,  and  beneath  these  are 
two  plain  pilasters.  The  lower  part  of  the  monument  consists  of  a  bold 
moulded  shelf  with  scalloped  fluting,  below  which  is  a  double  festoon  of 
drapery  and  an  underpiece  of  scrollwork  and  foliage. 

The  inscription  reads  ; 

Here  underneath 

lieth  what  was  Mortal 

of  IAMES  BUCK  Esq.  who 

departed  this  life  Dec.  24  A.D. 

1680  in  his  Climacterical,  viz  LXIIId  year  of 

his  Age.    He  was  Son  to  MATTHEW 

BUCK  Esq  of  WINTERBOUR  in  y<  Cou 

nty  of  GLOUCESTER  by  MARY  his  wife 

daughter  of  Sr  PETER  BUCK  of  ROCH 

ESTER  in  KENT  Kn».    He  had  to  wife 

ELIZABETH  daughter  of  HUMPHREY 

ROGERS  of  RICHMOND  in  y  County 

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of  SURRY  Esq  by  whom  he  had  If sue_ 
five  Sons  &  one  Daughter  ;   TAMES,  FRACIS 
ELIZABETH,  CHARLES,  IOHN,  &  RICH= 
=ARD  ;    whereof  yc  four  first  are  still  Survi- 
ving   His  Wife  ELIZABETH  having 
lived  20  years  married  died  Nov.  23.  1674 
in  ye  5Oth  year  of  her  Age  &  lies  Buried  in 
BARKHAMSTEAD  Church  in  HART  = 
=  FORDSHIRE  with  her  Ancestors 
JACOBUS  F.  Optimo  fcf  Optima 
Parenti  M.P. 

Arms  :  Party  fesswise  nebuly  argent  and  sable,  3  bucks'  attires  counter- 
coloured,  on  a  quarter  azure  a  cup  or  (Buck),  impaling  argent,  a  cheveron 
between  3  bucks  sable  (Rogers). 

57.    LADY  JANE   CHEYNE,   1669. 

CHARLES   CHEYNE  VISCOUNT  NEWHAVEN,   1698. 

This  lofty  and  beautiful  monument  of  coloured  marble,  containing 
a  recumbent  effigy  of  Lady  Jane  Cheyne,  was  made  in  Rome  and  designed 
by  Paolo  Bernini,  nephew  of  the  famous  architect.  Mr.  Randall  Davies 
has  printed*  a  series  of  very  interesting  letters  written  from  Rome  by 
Edward  Altham,  who  had  been  commissioned  by  Edmund  Chaloner,  Lord 
Cheyne's  kinsman,  to  arrange  the  execution  of  the  monument. 

The  monument  is  in  the  form  of  a  finely  proportioned  architectural 
apparel  to  the  recess  which  encloses  a  sarcophagus  qf  black  marble,  supporting 
the  reclining  figure  of  Lady  Cheyne,  who  is  represented  as  reading  a  book 
while  she  rests  with  one  arm  on  a  cushion.  She  is  attired  in  a  long,  flowing 
robe,  while  her  coronet  rests  near  her  feet.  The  sarcophagus  stands  on 
shaped  and  panelled  legs  on  a  panelled  plinth  which  also  supports  the  super- 
structure. This  is  slightly  concave  in  plan,  and  is  formed  of  two  long 
panelled  supports,  one  each  side  of  the  recess,  for  the  horizontal  entablature 
above.  In  front  of  these  stand  two  columns,  on  pedestals  projecting  from 
the  plinth,  with  beautifully  carved  Corinthian  capitals,  over  which  the 
entablature  breaks  forward  and  supports  a  curved  pediment.  The  bed 
mouldings  in  the  curved  cornice  are  brought  forward  over  the  columns,  and 
also  in  the  centre,  where  they  form  a  kind  of  key  block  or  corbel  to  correct 
the  weakness  of  the  arch.  The  tympanum  is  carved  with  conventional 
fruit  and  foliage,  and  above  the  monument  is  a  metal  cross  and  two  hearts, 
out  of  which  issue  flames.  The  monument  is  protected  by  beautiful  railings 
of  wrought  iron,  of  evident  English  make.  The  standards  at  the  angles  and 
in  the  centre  are  of  spiral  form,  and  have  spear  heads  with  hammered  scrolls. 

The  Latin  inscription,  is  cut  in  a  panel  at  the  back  of  the  recess  over 
the  figure,  and  is  as  follows  : 


Buck. 


Chelsea  Old  Church,  pp.  58-65. 


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Che\ne. 


M.  S. 

Pientifsimae  &  Sanctifsimse  Heroinas 
Nee  tarn  Avitis  Imaginibus  quam  Proprijs 

Virtutibus  Inlustris  ; 
Dominse  IANJE  CHEYNE 
Exc-1  Dni  GVILIELMI  Ducis  de  Novo  Castro 

Filitf  ex  tribus  Natu  maximas 
CAROLI   CHEYNE  Armigeri, 
Conjugis  Dilectifsimae  Desideratifsimae. 
De  qua  nihil  unquam  doluit  nisi  de  Mortua 
Ex  qua  tres  Optimae  Spei  Liberos  Sufcepit 
ELIZABETHAM,  GVILIELMVM 
&  Venustam  Deo  CATHARINAM 
Intra  paucos  a  morte  Matris  menfes 

Fato  functam 
Inter  csetera  Charitatis  Opera 

Tectum  huic  Ecclesice 
Densis  trabium  ordinibus  compingendum 

(quod  iam,  Deo  gratia,  effectum  est) 
Paullo  ante  mortem,  tanqua  ex  Legato  Dedit 
Vitse  Curriculum  qua  Pietate  &  Patientia 
Transegerat  Peregit  VIII0  Eid  Octob. 

Salutis  MDCLXIX 
Anno    jEtatis,  XLVIII 

Conjugij  XV. 
Quo  toto  prope  tempore  hanc  Ficiniam  prsesens. 

•     Nobilitavit  Beavit 
lacet,  una  cum  Filiola  CATHARINA 
Intra  Canttllos,  in  medio  Conditorio  Sepulta 
Sub  ipsa  Sacra  Mensa 

* 

On  the  side  of  the  sarcophagus  itself  is  the  following  inscription  to 
Lord  Cheyne  : 

M.  S. 

CAROLI  CHEYNE 

Vicscomitis  de  Newhaven  in  Regno  Scotias  et 
hujus  Mancrij  de  Chelfey  Domini  Qui  hoc 
Monimentu,  in  Memoria  Done  IAN/E  Conjugis  sus 
Ima:  dilectifsimae  Annos  abhinc  Viginti  et  Novem 
extruxerat  Ac  Nunc  demum  Ipfe 
(heu  nimium  cito)  demortuus 
Et  juxta  Conjugem  suam  (pro  ut  teftamento 

suo  defignaverat)  in  eodem  Conditorio 
Sepultus  Una  cum  ilia  Beatam  Refurrectionem 
oraeftolatur  Obij  3omo  die  lunij 


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1698 
78. 


CHELSEA 

Lord  and  Lady  Cheyne  lived  in  Henry  VIIPs  manor  house  (see 
Survey  of  London, Vol.  II,  Chelsea,  Part  I,  p.  73),  and  their  memory  is  cherished 
in  Chelsea,  their  name  being  commemorated  in  Cheyne  Walk.  Lady  Jane 
was  the  daughter  of  William,  Duke  of  Newcastle,  and  was  a  woman  of 
many  great  and  noble  qualities,  whose  life  through  the  Civil  War  was  an 
eventful  one  before  she  married  Charles  Cheyne  and  came  to  Chelsea.  She 
purchased  the  manor,  and  was  a  great  benefactor  to  the  village,  bearing 
part  of  the  expense  of  rebuilding  the  church,  the  roof  of  which  is  mentioned 
as  her  gift  in  her  memorial  inscription.  Dr.  Littleton  preached  an  eloquent 
sermon  at  her  funeral,  and  this  is  printed,  with  his  other  sermons. 

The  Cheyne  vault  was  under  the  Communion  Table  in  the  chancel, 
and  was  approached  by  a  stair  under  a  stone  at  the  foot  of  the  chancel  steps. 
Faulkner  prints  a  Latin  inscription*  on  the  entrance  to  the  vault,  and 
another  slab  of  polished  black  marble,  which  was  apparently  in  this  position, 
is  now  at  the  west  end  of  the  north  aisle. 

58.     RICHARD   GVILFORD,    1680. 

A  wall  tablet  of  white  marble  in  the  form  of  a  cartouche  with  small 
funeral  urn  above  and  a  winged  cherub  below.  The  ornament  of  the  upper 
part  is  composed  of  drapery,  and  the  lower  part  is  carved  with  sprays  of  bay 
and  palm  leaves. 

The  inscription  runs  : 

Here  lye  the  Bodies  of 

RICHARD  GUILFORD 

and  of  his  two  Wives  who 

dyed  before  him  Abigail 

Daughter  of  lohn  Wood 

of  the  County  of  York  by  whom 

he  had  a  Daughter  ludeth 

and  Elizabeth  Daughter  of  Roger 

Friend  of  Lambeth  in  Surrey  by  whom 

he  had  two  Daughters  Anne  and  Abigal 

and  a  Son  Charles.    He  gave  to  this  Parifh 

For  ever  the  Yearly  Summ  of  ten  Pounds 

to  be  diftributed  on  the  5th  of  Decemb1" 

the  Day  of  his  Wedding  with 

the  aforefaid  Elizabeth 

and  dyed  16  Nov:  1 680  aged  66  years 

Abigail  his  youngeft  Daughter 

Wife  of  George  Bifhop  of  Bath 

and  Wells  and  Executrix  to 

her  Brother  Charles 

Guilford  Erected 

this  Monument 

An  :   1709. 

*   Chelsea  and  its  Environs,  Vol.  I,  p.  218. 

45 


o 


5© 


CHELSEA 

59.    HFNRY    RAPF.K,    1717:    KATHERINE   RAPER,    1735. 

iall  tablet  shaped  like  the  end  of  a  sarcophagus. 
The  inscription  reads  : 

NEAR    THIS    SPOT 
ARE    DEPOSITED    THE    REMAINS    OF 

HENRY   RAPER,  ESQ" 

BORN     1 6th    OCTOBER    IJIJ  '• 

DIED    MAY     IIth     1789, 

AND    OF    HIS    WIFE, 

KATHERINE   RAPER 

BORN    9th    JANUARY    IJ35  ; 
DIED    NOV."    12™     1823 

TO    WHOSE    MEMORY 

THIS    TABLET    IS    ERECTED    BY 

FILIAL    RESPECT 

AND    AFFECTION 

Henry  Raper  lived  at  No.  32  Cheyne  Row  from  1775  until  some  time 
after  1783,  though  whether  until  his  death  is  uncertain  owing  to  a  break 
in  the  Rate  Book  records  for  these  years.  Catherine  Raper  lived  at  25  Cheyne 
Walk  from  1790  until  1802.  (See  Survey  of  London,  Vol.  II,  Chelsea,  Ft.  I, 
p.  74,  and  Vol.  IV,  Chelsea,  Pt.  II,  pp.  65,  67.) 

60.  JENNETT  HAMILTON,  1716:  ALEXANDER  HAMILTON,  1724. 

A  curiously  designed  tablet  consisting  of  a  moulded  shelf  supporting 
an  achievement  of  arms  within  a  frame  of  two  panelled  pilasters  bent  to  an 
ogee  shape  and  a  small  cornice.  Beneath  the  shelf  are  two  brackets  and  a 
shaped  apron  bearing  the  following  inscription  : 


Beneath  this  Monumt  lyeth  yc  Body  of  IENNETT 
The  Wife  of  ALEXANDER  HAMILTON  of  this  Parifh  Gent  : 
Who  departed  this  Life  ye  9th  of  Sepf  1716 

In  y*  54th  year  of  her  Age 

Here  alfo  lyeth  the  Body  of  the  abouenamed 

ALEXANDER  HAMILTON  who  died 

the  3oth  of  November,  1724 

in  the  72d  Year  of  his  Age. 

The  shield  bears :  Quarterly  of  four,  I  and  4,  sable,  a  molet  between 
three  cinquefoils    ermine,  2  and  3,   sable,  a  human  heart  between  three 
cinquefoils  ermine,  (for  Hamilton)  impaling  quarterly,  I   and  4,  argent,  a 
lymphad  sable,  2  and  3,  or,  a  lion  sable. 
Nave.     South  Wall. 

61.   GREGORY  FIENNES  LORD  DACRE,  and  ANNE  LADY  DACRE, 
1 594-5- 

A  large  monument  of  marble,  consisting  of  an  altar  tomb,  panelled 
46 


CHELSEA 

and  moulded,  bearing  the  recumbent  effigies  in  alabaster  of  Lord  and  Lady 
Dacre.  He  is  in  armour,  and  they  both  rest  their  feet  on  a  dog.  Above  the 
figures  is  a  deep  semi-circular  arch,  the  soffit  of  which  is  coffered  and  adorned 
with  floral  bosses.  The  moulding  of  the  responds  is  carried  round  the  sides 
and  back  of  the  recess  above  a  panelled  dado,  the  side  panels  being  carved 
with  strapwork,  while  the  back  is  divided  into  five  panels — a  plain  one  in  the 
centre,  two  narrow  panels  of  carved  ornament  and  an  inscribed  panel  at  each 
end.  The  space  between  the  arch  and  the  dado  has  a  large  inscribed  panel 
surrounded  by  a  frame  of  strapwork  and  the  usual  ornament  of  the  period. 
Similar  ornament  adorns  the  pilasters  flanking  the  recess,  in  fpont  of  which  are 
columns  with  Corinthian  capitals  and  pedestals,  which  stand  at  each  end  of 
the  projecting  altar  tomb.  Above  the  arch  and  columns  is  a  horizontal 
entablature  which  breaks  forward  over  the  latter  and  over  the  keystone, 
which  is  carved  with  a  winged  cherub.  The  cornice  is  formed  of  the  convex 
curve,  with  deep  projection,  which  was  in  general  use  at  the  period,  and 
above  is  a  moulded  tabling,  forming  the  base  of  two  large  obelisks,  one  over 
each  column,  between  which  runs  a  balustrade.  Above  this  is  an  achieve- 
ment of  arms  with  supporters  within  a  frame  composed  of  pilasters  covered 
with  carved  work,  and  carrying  an  entablature,  over  which  are  a  winged  skull, 
an  hour  glass,  and  a  balance.  A  shield  of  arms  within  a  circular  frame  of 
strapwork  stands  on  each  side  of  the  centre  piece  above  the  balustrade.  (See 
also  under  Helm,  p.  10.) 

A  miniature  tomb  with  the  recumbent  effigy  of  an  infant  lies  next 
the  altar  tomb.  The  monument  is  enclosed  by  beautiful  railings  with  three 
spiral  standards  and  lily-shaped  finials,  bound  together  by  an  enriched  rail 
fitted  with  floral  studs. 

Inscriptions. 

In  the  back  of  the  tomb  over  the  effigies  : 

IN  OBITVM  NOBILISSIMORVM 

CONIVGVM  GREGORII.  T>. 
DACRES  ET  ANN.E  VXORIS 

QVOS  ARDENS  COPVLAVIT  AMOR  IVVENILIBVS  ANNIS 

ABSTVLIT  ATRA  DIES,  MORS  INOPINA  RAPIT 
ILLE  PRIOR  FATIS  DACRORVM  NOBILE  GERMEN 

OCCIDIT  :  IN  MORBVM  AT  INCIDIT  ILLA  PRIV 

QVJE    LANGVESCENDO    MISERY    PR^TEDIA    VIT-flE  Sackville. 

SENSIT,  TAM  DVLCI  CONIVGE  CASSA  svo. 

VT    TENERI    COPDIS    CONCORDIA    IVNXERAT    AMBOS 

SlC    IDEM    AMBORVM    CONTEGIT    OSSA    LOCVS 
QVOS    IVNGIT    TVMVLVS    CONIVNGVNT    CCELICA    TECTA 

VT    TENEANT    CCELVM    QVI    TENVERE    FIDEM 

The  final  s  in  PRIVS  in  the  fourth  line  is  omitted.  The  Q  in  QVOS  and 
QVO  in  the  last  two  lines  appear  as  o  in  the  inscription. 

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Dacrc. 


The  two  inscribed  panels  at  the  back  of  the  effigies  read  : 

NOHILIS    ISTE    VIR    OBIIT    2$ 
SEPTEMB.     1594 

and 

NOBILIS    ISTA    MVLIER    OBIIT 
14    MAII     1595 

The  centre  panel  of  the  sarcophagus  is  inscribed  as  follows  : 
NOBILIS  ANNA  IACES  PRVDENS  SACKVILLIA  PROLES 

•VlVA  TVI  DEFLES  FVNERA  MOESTA  VIRI. 
NlL  MORTALS  PLACET,  CCELVM  TVA  PECTORA  SPIRANT 

POSTQ  PARCA  VIRI  CONSCIDIT  ATRA  DIEM 
F^EMINEI  LVX  CLARA  CHORI,  PIA,  CASTA,  PVDICA 

l.'.RIS  SVBSIDIVM  PAVPERIBVSQ.  DECVS. 
FlDA  DEO  PERCHARA  TVIS,  CONSTANSQ  DISERTA 

VT    PATIENS    MORBI,    SIC    PIETATIS    AMANS. 
()    QVOTIES    MANIBVS    PASSIS    AD    CVLMINA    CCELI 

HANC    ANIMAM    DIXTI,    SVSCIPE    QVJESO    DEVS 
MlXS    PIA,    CCELESTIS    PATRICE    PERVENIT    AD    ARC!  M, 

HlC    TVMVLVS    CORPVS    MENTIS    INANE    TENET. 

Arms  :  Quarterly  of  12  :  I,  azure,  3  lions  or  (Fiennes) ;  2,  gules,  3 
scallops  argent  (Dacre)  ;  3,  argent,  3  bars  gules,  a  label  azure  (Moulton) ;  4, 
cheeky  or  and  gules  (Vaux)  ;  5,  azure,  sown  with  fleurs-de-lys  and  fretty  or 
(Morville)  ;  6,  azure,  a  chief  or,  3  cheverons  interlaced  in  base  (Fitzhugh)  ; 
7,  Barry  of  8  argent  and  gules,  a  fleur-de-lys  sable  (Staveley)  ;  8,  azure,  a  bend 
between  6  crosslets  or  (Furneaux) ;  9,  Barry  argent  and  azure,  on  a  bend 
gules  3  martlets  or  (Grey)  ;  10,  vair,  a  fess  gules  (Marmion)  ;  n,  or,  3 
cheverons  gules  a  chief  vair  (St.  Quintin)  ;  12,  Barry  of  10  or  and  azure,  an 
eagle  gules  (Gernegan).  Crest  :  An  eagle's  head.  Supporters  :  (dexter)  a 
wolf-dog  argent,  collared  and  chained  or,  (sinister)  a  bull,  gules  collared  with 
a  ducal  coronet  and  chained  or.  Motto  :  POVR  BIEN  DESIRER. 

On  the  left-hand  shield  are  the  above  12  quarterings  impaling 
quarterly  or  and  gules,  a  bend  vair  for  Sackville.  On  the  right  is  a  shield 
bearing  Sackville  only. 

Lord  and  Lady  Dacre  lived  in  the  house  originally  Sir  Thomas  M  ore's 
and  afterwards  known  as  Beaufort  House  (see  Survey  of  London,  Vol.  IV, 
Chelsea,  Pt.  II,  p.  18).  Lady  Dacre  founded  Emmanuel  Hospital,  West- 
minster, to  which  charity  Chelsea  has  the  privilege  of  sending  two  poor 
persons  as  long  as  the  founder's  tomb  is  kept  in  good  order. 

62.    HUMFREY  PESHALL,   1650. 

A  small  brass  plate  3^x2^  inches  bears  an  inscription  to  the 
above.  Mr.  Randall  Davies*  states  that  this  plate  is  a  forgery,  and 

*  Chfbfa  Old  Church,  p.  231. 
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CHELSEA 

was  probably  put  up  in  the  Church  by  the  Rev.  John  Pearsall  when  he 
claimed  the  Peshall  baronetcy  on  its  becoming  extinct  in  1771.  It  is  not 
known  why  Chelsea  Church  was  selected  as  the  site  for  the  imposture. 

63.  ANN   LOWFEILD,    1720. 

A  tablet  of  white  marble  with  shaped  head  and  base,  on  two  small 
brackets,  with  moulded  edge. 
Inscription  : 

To  the  Memory  of 

M"  ANN  LOWFEILD 

Daughter  of  THOMAS  LOWFEILD  Efq' 

late  of  this  Parifh 

She  departed  this  life 

the  5th  of  Decembr  1720 

And  according  to  her  own  defire 

lies  buried  clofe  on  the  outfide 

of  this  Wall. 

Arms  :  On  a  lozenge,  six  pieces  vert  and  or,  a  bull's  head  sable  and 
2  garbs  on  the  or. 

"  Mrs."  Lowfeild  lived  at  18  Cheyne  Row  from  1711  until  her  death.* 

64.  JOHN  WOOLLEY. 
JOHN  CORY  GRIFFITH. 
JOHN  WELLS   LAMBE. 
WILLIAM  BRUCE. 

A  tablet  purporting  to  reproduce  the  original  stone  in  the  church- 
yard (now  unidentified)  commemorating  the  death  of  four  men  drowned 
in  the  Thames  on  20  January,  1839. 

65.  MATTHEW  SQUIRE,   1800. 

An  elliptical  tablet  of  white  marble,  inscribed  as  follows : 

Near  this  Spot  is  Interr'd 
the  remains  of  MATTHEW  SQUIRE  Efq10 

Rear  Admiral  of  the  Red 

of  his  Majefty's  Royal  Navy 

who  departed  this  Life  22  January  1800 

Aged  55  Years 

his  Virtues  are  to  well  known 

to  be  recorded  here  being  sincerely  regretted 

by  all  his  Friends. 

66.  MARY  BOLNEY,    1716. 

A  tablet  of  white  marble,  with  moulded  cornice  and  broken  pediment, 

*  See  Survey  of  London,  Vol.  II,  Chelsea.  Pt.  I,  p.  26  ;  also  Vol.  IV,  Chelsea,  Pt.  II,  pp.  63, 65. 

D  49 


CHELSEA 


Bolney. 


on  a  moulded  shelf,  and  two  small  brackets.  The  arms  which  are  lying 
under  the  (Jervoise  monument  are  as  follows  :  Sable,  a  fess  or,  between  3 
•..ins  (\Vybarnd),  and  or,  in  chief  2  molets  and  in  base  a  crescent  gules 
(Bolney),  impaling  azure,  3  mascles  or  between  2  unicorns'  heads  erased  sable 
(Smith  of  Yorkshire). 

Near  this  Place  Lyes  the  Body  of 
MBS  MARY  BOLNEY  Widow,  late  of  Little 
Chelsey,  Daughter  of  BARTHOLO*  SMITH 
Esqr<>  of  the  Soke  in  Winchester.  She  was 
twice  Married,  first  to  JOHN  WYBARN  D  Efqre. 
of  Hawkwell  in  Kent  by  whom  she  had 

2  Sons   &   3    Daughters,   &   afterwards    to 
GEO    BOLNEY   of    Bolney    Esqrc    by  whom 

3  Sons  &  6  Daughters,  &  died  in  the  88th 
Year    of    her    Age    Anno    Domini     1716.  _ 

67.  BENJAMIN    DODD,    1796. 

Tablet  of  black  marble  with  moulded  cornice  of  white  marble  and 
two  small  drops  of  the  same. 
The  inscription  runs  : 

Sacred  to  the  Memory  of 

BENJAMIN  DODD  Efquire 

of  this  Parif  h 
who  died  on  the  ioth  of  November  1796 

Aged  70  years 
This  was  a  Man. 

68.  DAVID   HEATLY,    1803. 

An  elliptical  panel  of  white  marble. 

Nave.    West  Wall. 

69.  ANNE   WAKELIN,    1722. 

A  simple  tablet  with  moulded  segmental  cornice  and  key  block  on  a 
moulded  shelf  supported  by  two  brackets,  inscribed  : 

Near  this  Place 
lyeth  interr'd  the  Body 

of  ANNE  WAKELIN  (Widow 
of  THO  :  \YAKELIN  Of  York  building 

in  the  Liberty  of  Weftminster 
Apothecary]  who  died  the  7th  of 
Septenv  1722.     Anno  ^Etat :  44. 

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CHELSEA 

70.  WILLIAM   DANIEL,    1800. 

An  elliptical  tablet  of  white  marble  inscribed  : 

e 

NEAR 

the  Middle  of  the  South  Aifle  lies 
the  REMAINS  of 

WILLIAM  DANIEL  Efquire 

late  a  CAPTAIN  in  the  ROYAL  NAVY 
who  died  at  Chelfoa  the  21 ft  Day  of  February 

1800 

Aged  67  Years 

To  whofe  MEMORY  this  Stone 

is  erected  by  his 

CHILDREN 

Captain  Daniel  lived  in  No.  8,  Upper  Cheyne  Row  from  1790-1794  * 

71.  SYDENHAM  TEAST  EDWARDS,    1819. 

72.  JOHN  BROWN,   1816. 

73.  JOHN  WILTON,    1835. 

74.  MARY  ANNE  ALICE   BAYLEY,    1824. 

75.  ANN  CULLIFORD,   1726. 

A  rectangular  tablet  of  white  marble  with  moulded  frame  having  a 
shaped  overpiece  with  scrolls,  side  console-shaped  brackets,  and  a  shield  of 
arms  below  between  sprays  of  palm  leaves. 

The  inscription  reads  : 

Near  this  Place  lyes  Inter'd 
the  Body  of 

MRS  ANN  CULLIFORD 

Wife  of  Culhf°rd- 

Cap*  RICHARD  CULLIFORD 

who  Departed  this  Life 

the  8th  of  7ber  1726 

in  the  67th  year  of 

Her  Age 

Arms  :  Argent,  a  fess  gules  between  3  colts  sable,  impaling  azure,  a 
lion  crowned  between  three  crosslets  or. 

Commissary  Culliford  appears  in  the  List  of  Benefactors  to  Don 
Saltero's  Coffee  House.f  He  was  buried  at  Chelsea  .on  3rd  May,  1738. 

*  Survey  of  London,  Vol.  IV,  Chelsea,  Pt.  II,  p.  74. 
t  Ibid.,  Vol.  II,  Chelsea,  Pt.  I,  p.  63. 


CHELSEA 

Return  Wall 

76.  SARAH  COLLINS,   1811. 
WILLIAM    COLLINS,    1828. 

77.  MATILDA  CHAMBERS,    1813. 

78.  HENRY   COOPER,   1824. 

79.  ISABEL   CLAREMONT,   1824. 

Tower.    North  Wall. 

80.  WILLIAM  MONCRIEFF,   1732. 

This  tablet  over  the  door  to  Belfry  has  the  appearance  of  having 
been  part  of  a  larger  monument,  and  is  inscribed  : 

Hie  est  Sepultus 
GULIELMUS  MONCREIFF 

.tfitatis  73 

Scotiae  olim  Pastor  Episcopalis 

In  Academia  Sancti  Andreas 

Humaniorum  Literarum  Profefsor 

Plurimorum  luvenum  Nobilium 

Dum  peregre'  sunt  Profecti 

Praeceptor. 

Morum  Integer, 

Linguarum  Peritus 

Rerum  atque  Hominum  Sciens 

Obij'  i°  Aprilis  Anno  Domini 

1732 

81.  WILLIAM    CLARKSON,    1712. 

A  simple  marble  tablet  with  horizontal  cornice  and  cleft  pediment 
enclosing  a  small  urn,  inscribed  as  follows  : 

In  the  vault  under  the  ftairs  that  leads 
up  into  ye  new  Gallery  lyeth  the  body 
of  MK  WILLIAM  CLARKSON  fon  of  Mr. 
IOHN  CLARKSON  of  this  Parifh  who 

died  June  the  2Oth  1712 

in  the  33d  year  of  his  Age 

In  the  fame  vault  lyeth  the  bodyes 

of  three  of  his  children  viz  : 

one  Daughter  &  two  fons 
THEODOSIA  born  May  yc  24th  1704,  buried 

Augft  ye  28th  1704. 
ABRAHALL  born  OctbT  ye  26th  1705.  buried 

Juney'  8th  1708 

GILBERT  born  Augft  f  V  1709  buried 
Sep^y*  1 8th  1710 

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82.  HESTER   HILL,    1699:     THOMAS   HILL,    1713. 

A  marble  inscription  tablet  with  panelled  pilasters  at  the  sides  and  a 
horizontal  entablature  with  cleft  pediment  enclosing  a  small  funeral  urn  ; 
supported  on  a  moulded  and  scalloped  ledge  with  small  fluted  console 
brackets  and  a  winged  skull  and  foliage  below. 

In  the  Uault  under  the  ftaires, 

that  leades  up  into  the  new  Gallery, 

lyeth  the  body  of  MRS.  HESTER  HILL 

Wife  of  MK  THOMAS  HILL  of  this  Parijh 

who  dyed  Jan:  3oth  1699.  in  the  ^i/l 

year  of  her  Age. 

In  the  same  Vault  lyeth  also  ye 

body  of  y'  above  named  MR  THOMAS  HILL    . 

who  dyed  Novir  y'  3d  1713.  in  the 

75th  year  of  his  Age. 

Tower.     South  Wall. 

83.  ANNA  MARIA  SUTTON,   1745. 

Sacred  to  the  Memory 

of 

ANNA  MARIA  POWEL 
The  late  Beloved  Wife 

of 

Cap'  DAWLY  SUTTON 

Who  was  deliver'd  from  the  Prifon  of 

the  Body  the  12th  day  of  November  1745 

in  the  5oth  Year  of  Her  Age 
Reader  forbear  nor  Shed  One  Ufelefs  Tear 
Her  Soul  is  fled,  the  Body  now  lies  here 
But  when  Immortal  Life  it  fhall  put  on 
By  Pow'r  deriv'd  from  GOD'S  Eternal  SON 
Then  Death  no  more  fhall  seperate  the  Pair 
But  Endlefs  joys  fhall  crown  the  Waking  Fair 
Till  then  Sufpend  thy  Thoughts  of  what  She  is 
But  Live  like  Her  and  Gain  Eternal  Blifs. 

FLOOR  SLABS. 

In  the  pavement  of  the  church  are  slabs  bearing  the  following  in- 
scriptions, over  and  above  those  already  noticed  in  connection  with  the 
wall  monuments.  Their  position  is  shown  by  the  numbers  on  the  plan 
(Plate  15). 

In  the  Chancel. 

84.  Purbeck  slab,  showing  matrix  of  brass.    (See  under  Brasses,  p.  5.) 

85.  Purbeck  slab,  with  matrix  of  brass.    (See  also  under  Brasses,  p.  6.) 

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86.  IN  Memory  of    . 

M[KSl  SUSANNA  BARKER 

(late  c  f  this  Parifh) 

died  October  29th  1793 

AGED  72  YEARS 

87.  Beneath  this  Stone 

lie  the  Remains  of 

NICHOLAS  RAY  Efqr 

of  this  Parifh  he  died 

with  a  firm  reliance 

upon  the  Mercy  of 

Almighty  God  the  24th 

day  of  Sept'  I788 

Aged  72  Years. 

88.  UNDERNEATH  THIS  STONE 

LYETH  INTR'D  THE  BODY  OF 

THOMAS  PUTLAND 

ESQ"  WHO  DEPARTED  THIS  LIFE 

ON  THE  14™  OF  IULY  ANNO  DOM 

1723  IN  THE  72"°  YEAR  OF  His. 

AGE 

Thos.  Putland  lived  at  2A,  Paradise  Row  (1712-23).     (See  Survey  oj 
London,  Vol.  I,  Chelsea,  Pt.  I.,  p.  25.) 

89.  Here  lyeth  the  Body  of 

HENRY   LUSSAN  ESQ" 

some  time  One  of  his  Alajesties 
Juftices  of  the  Peace  for  the 

County  of  Monmouth 

who  departed  this  Life  the  2d  day  of 

February  1750  In  the  8oth  Year 

of  his  Age 

In  the  Vault  beneath  this  Marble 
are  deposited  the  Remains  of 

MRS  CATHERINE  HORTON 

of  this  PARISH  who  departed  this  Life 

On  the  15th  of  January  1782 
And  was  Niece  of  the  above  Inscribed 

HENRY  LUSSAN  ESQ 

Above  the  inscription  is  a  coat-of-arms  ;  now  defaced. 
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S  .  .  . 
MR  GEORGE 

who  Departed  this  life 
Nov  4  177  .  , 
Aged  .  . 


In  the  Lawrence  Chapel. 


91.  THE 

SACRED  TO         MEMORY 

•     OF 

THE  HONOURABLE  DAME  GRISEL 

RELICT  OF  THE  HONOURABLE  S" 

IOHN  LAURENCE  LATE  OF  IVER  IN  YE 

COUNTY  OF  BUCKS  KNIGHT  AND  BARONET 

SHEE  DIED  IN  HER  HOWSE  AT  CHELSEY 

THE  l6  OF  MARCH  IN  THE  YEERE  OF 

OVR  LORD  1675  AGED  EIGHTY  YEERES 

A  FRUITFULL  PARENT  OF  CHILDRENS 

CHILDRENS  CHILDREN 

Chast  Prvdent  Vertuous  all  her  life 
as  a  right  widdow  mother  wife 
loe  here  shee  lyes  who  was  all  thi[s] 
And  more  which  tongue  cannot  exp[ress] 

92.  Sacred  to  the  Memory 

of 

HENRY  LAVRENCE  TVRKY  MARCHANT 

YOUNGEST  SONNE  OF  SR  loHN  LAVRENCE 

KNT  &  BARONET,  WHO  DYED  IN  THE 

3OT"  YEARE  OF  HIS-  AGE  THE   I4TH  OF 

OCTOBER  1667 

Heere  rests  ye  weary  Marchant  having  tride 
And  finding  this  world's  traffick  vaine  defide 
That  empty  triffle  now  hes  gon  to  trade 
In  th'  other  world  for  gaines  which  never  fade 
Thence  yow  shall  see  when  He  acquits  this  Vrn 
of  euerlasting  Grawnes  A  braue  returne 
the  stock  of  goodnefs  hee  imbarkd  before 
Ensures  him  there  an  hundred  fold  And  more 


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,,,  In  humble  Hope  of  a  Blefsed 

Rcfurrection 

Her  lyeth  whatfoever 

was  Mortall  of  the  Excellent 

MRS  FRANCES   LAURENCE 

Eminent  for  her  truly  Loyall 

Principles  to  the  Crown, 

And  Constancy  to  the  Church 

of  England  in  the  worft  of  Times 

and  for  Threescore  and  ten  years 

space  Allwais  a  Virgin  :   She  was 

Second  Daugh"  to  S«  IOHN  LAURENCE 

of  Iver  in  the  County  of  Bucks 
K'  and  Baronet  by  Dame  GRISSELL 

his  only  Wife 
An  Ofspring  worthy  of  such  Parents 

She  departed  this  life  at  Chelfey 
the  28th  day  of  November 

Anno  Domini  1685 
In  the  Nave  (north  part}. 

01.  Here  Lyeth  the  Body 

Of IOHN  CRAUFORD 

EsqT  who  died  Dec  ye  19 

An  :  Dom  1720  in  the 

In  the  49th  year  of  his 

age 

John  Crauford,  styled  by  Bowack  "  one  of  her  Majesties  Commis- 
sioners, Son  to  Commissary  David  Crawford"  lived  in  No.  4,  Paradise  Row, 
and  afterwards,  from  1714-19,  in  Ormonde  House.  (Bee  Survey  of  London, 
Vol.  II,  Chelsea,  Pt.  I,  pp.  24,  26.) 

95.  Underneath  are  Interrd 

the  Remains  of  ANNE 

the  Wife  of  THOS  BUBB 

of  this  Parifh  Gent  : 

She  departed  this  Life 

the  30  Jan.  1760 

Aged  80  Years 

Also  of  THOMAS  Husband 

of  the  above  ANNE   BUBB 

who  Died  Sepr.  25th.  1760 

Aged  86 
Also  ELIZABETH  their 

Daughter  the  Beloved 

Wife  of  MR.  THO.  LINDSAY 

Apothy  in  Weftminfter 

who  Died  April  24th  1769 

56  Aged  58 


CHELSEA 

96.  Here  lyeth  Interd  ye  Body 

.  .  .  ANNE   CRESPIN 
who  departed  this  life  ye  2"  day 
of  July  .   .  .  year  of  her  age 

...    172  . 
.  .    lieth  the  .   . 
MRS  ANNE   CRESPIN 
Mother  of  the  above  said  and  wife 
of  CAPT  DANIEL   CRESPIN  of  this 

parish  who  departed  this  life  the 
.  .  day  of  May  1750  in  the  43rd  year 

of  her  age 

Here  likewise  lieth  interred 

the  body  of  the  above  named 

CAP1   DANIEL   CRESPIN 

who  Departed  this  life 

12th  day  of  June  1743 

in  the  .   .  Year  of  his  Age. 

Mr.  Crespin  is  among  the  list  of  Benefactors  at  Don  Saltero's.     (See 
Survey  of  London,  Vol.  II,  Chelsea,  Pt.  I,  p.  63.) 

97-  MRS  ELIZABETH  THOMPSON 

Died  4th  April  1796 
Aged  56  Years 

98.  MRS  ANN  BANKS 

late  of  this  Parifh 

Died  March  i  :   1759 

In  the  79tb  Year  of  her  Age 

Over  the  inscription  is  a  coat-of-arms  bearing  on  a  lozenge  within  a 
circle  the  following  :  a  cross  between  four  fleur-de-lys.  Bantss 

99.  C.  H. 

Jany  y'  14  ... 

100.  MRS.   MARY  ANN  HODSDEN. 

Obiit  29  Maii  1801 
jEtat  58 

MR  JOHN  ELDERTON 

late  of  the  City  of  LONDON 

PACKER  died  March  23rd  1767 

in  the  4oth  Year  of  his  Age 

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101.  ...  Body  .  .  . 

AIK  JOHN  HUTCHINS 

late  of  this  PARISH 

Died  February  8th  1762 

Aged  67  years 

Alfo 
MRS.  ELIZABETH  HUTCHINS 

Wife  of  the  above 

Who  Departed  this  life 

Decr  3  :  1762 

Aged  64  Years 

:'f  (centre). 

102.  Intus  hie  conquiefcunt 
Cineres  &  Offa  SARA  LUTTRELL 

Memoriae  perquam  charae 

quae  Pleuritidis  Morbo  etiamfi  exanimata 

Spe  tamen  Refurrectionis  beatae  fulcita 

Et  Chrifto  Redemptore  freta 

Nono  die  lulij  placide  emifit  Spiritum 

Anno  Domini  MDCCXXII  ,/Etatis  vero  LXIII 

NARCISSVM  LVTTRELL  Armigerum,  Maritum 

Et  Francifcum  Filium  Unicum  moerentes 

Et  Superftites  relinquens 
Unde  mori  moneamur  omnes 

NARCISSUS  LUTTRELL  A* 

Hydrope-  conf  ectus 

Minimo  cum  Luctu  animam  efflavit 

XXVI  die  lunii  MDCCXXXII 

Anno  jEtatis  LXXV 
.FRANCIS  LUTTRELL 
ESQR  Died  June  ye  5th  1749 
In  ye  66  Year  of  his  Age. 

103.  ELIZABETH  FRANKLIN 
Daughter  of  THOMAS  FRANKLIN 
&  said  ELIZABETH  [FRANKLIN] 

Aged  .  .  . 

.  .  departed     .      XXXI  .  . 
i6[98] 

104.  Repo  ELLS 
RI[CARD]  ORUM 

GVLIELFM]  i6qc 

RICARD 

'[695] 
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105.  ELIZABETH   LEAVER 

ob  D[ec']  [6]  1762 
an  [Jit]  71 


1 06.  Here  l[ieth]  the  Body  of 

MRS  FR[ANSES]  A[RABELLA]   K[ELRY] 
who  Departed]  this  life  the  [zd]  d[ay] 
Of  Novmb  ...  in  the  .  .  [year]  of 


107.  THE   BODYES   OF   T[WO] 

INFANTS  ONE   OF  THE   LD 
ROBERTS   BARON  OF  TRVRO 
THE   OTHER  OF  HIS   SONS 

ROBERT   ROBERTS 
LYE   HERE   INTERRED 


1 08  MR  JOHN  HUTCHINS 

Son  of  JOHN  and  ELIZh 

HUTCHINS  of  this 

Parifh.    Died  Dec  i8th 

1765.    Aged  45  Years 


109.  MR  NATHANIEL   FIRMIN 

Died  13  February  1753 
Aged  63 

MR  NATHANIEL   FIRMIN 

his  Son  died  28  October 
1767  Aged  24  Years 

MRS  ....  FIRMIN  Died 
Novr  .    .  Aged  6 1 

Nave  (south  part). 

no.  In  Memory  of 

MRS  ANNA  MARIA  DOW  D ALL 
Died  22d  Septemr  1795 
Aged  71  Years 

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in.  In  Memory 

of  MRS  MARTHA  DENVER 

Died  Jan"  i8th  1795 

In  the  64  Year  of  Her  Age 

(and  others  after  1800) 

112.  In  Memory  of 

Mih  JANE   DORRELL   MORRELL 

Who  died  Dec  26th  1798 
Aged  1 6  Years 

Alfo  MRS  FRANCES  MORRELL 
Died  JUNE  ioth  1802 
(and  others  after  1800) 


113.  Here  lies  the  Body  of 

MK  FRANCIS   THOMAS  Director  of  y' 

CHINA  PORCELAIN  Manufactory  of 

Lawrence  Street  CHELSEA  Departed 

this  Life  Between  the  Hours  of  Ten  and 

Eleven  O'Clock  Sunday  night  ye  6th  Jany 

1770  in  the  45th  year  of  his  Age 

Surely  The  Tendereft  Husband 

The  Beft  of  Fathers  And  y°  Sincereft  Friend 

Whofe  Death  is  Greatly  Lamented 

By  us  And  by  all  his  Friends 
Oh  But  when  The  Great  God  does  call 
And  summons  us  Both  Great  and  small 
Therefore  Let  us  My  Friends  Prepare 
Like  this  the  Best  of  Fathers  here 


1 4-  HERE  LYETH  THE  BODY 

OF  MRS/ARAH   WADE   y* 

WIFE  OF  BRYAN   W[ADE  OF] 

THIS  PARISH  GENT 

WHO    DIED    ye    7    OF    AUG 

1710 
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In  the  Tower. 
115. 


Here  lyeth  ye  body  of 

SUSANNAH  CALDWELL 

Wife  of  IOHN   CALDWELL  who 

Departed  this  life  ye  24th  day  of  febry 

In  y"  [51]  year  of  her  Age  and  in  ye  year 

Anno  Domini 


116. 


117. 


Alffo  ye  body  of]  IOHN   CALDWELL 

H[usband  of  ye]  Above  said  who  Dyed 

J[an  ye        ]  in  y''  35th  Year  of  his  Age 

Anno  Dom  1721 

In  Memory  of 

MR  EDWARD   ANDERSON 

Who  died  Auguft  the  25th  171  [9] 

Aged  76  Years 

Alfo 

MR  EDWARD   ANDERSON  hi[s  son]. 
Who  died  June  the  17  ..... 

Aged  85  Years 
Who  was  Many  Years  Mas[ter  of] 

CHELSEA  HOSPI[TAL] 

and  Alfo  to  his  Majesty  .  .   . 

at  Hampton  Court 

Richmond  and  Kew 

[HERE   LYEJTH  Y"  BODY 
....    STEVENS   OF 

[YE  PA]RISH  OF   SNT 
....    WESTMT 

[WHO]  DEPARTED  THIS 

[LIFE]    .     .     .     27TH  1723 

.......    YEAR 

OF  HIS  AGE 

Here  also  lies  the  Body  of 

MR  CORNELIUS   ROSE  of  the 

same  Parish  he  died  May  the  22 

1731  in  the  58  Year  of  his  Age 

Here  also  lyeth  the  Body  of 
MRS  MARGARET   ROSE  wife  to  the 

above  and  who  Departed  this  Life 

the  ....   Day  of  February  1732  in 

the  [3]!  Year  of  her  Age 


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CHELSEA  •  OLD  •  CHURCH  • 


IV.     MONUMENTS    IN   THE   CHURCHYARD 

The  following  inscriptions  include  all  the  stones  which  can  with  any 
certainty  be  ascribed  to  the  period  covered  by  the  London  survey  (i.e.  up 
to  and  including  the  year  1800).  Wherever  the  lettering  is  now  illegible 
the  inscriptions  have  been  completed  from  Robert  Chambers'  MS.  in  the 
Chelsea  Public  Library.  All  restorations  are  shown  by  square  brackets 
unless  the  whole  inscription  is  marked  as  illegible. 


1 1 8.        On  the  stone  covering  the  grave  is  the  following  on  plates  of  iron 
fixed  into  it : 

PHILIP  MILLER 
OB  DEC  18.  1771  JE  80 

CHARLES  MILLER 
ONLY  Sox  OF  THE  ABOVE 

PHILIP  MILLER 

DIED  6TH  OCT*.  1817 

AGED  78 

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119.  In  the  N.  wall  of  the  Churchyard  is  fixed  a  large  monument  with 
the  following  inscription  much  defaced  by  the  weather.     The  monument 
is  similar  to  that  of  Woodcock  (No.  123)  but  without  a  pediment.     Crest:  a 
goat's  head  on  a  crown  surmounts  the  inscription  panel  and  a  coat  of  arms 
is  carved  below. 

Near  this  place  under  a  stone  with  his  name  on  it 
lyes  y  body  of  JOHN  PENNANT  Gent  2  son  of  DAVID 
PENNANT  of  Bighton  in  ye  County  of  Flint  Esq™ 
who  departed  this  life  ye  5  day  of  lune  1709  Aged  69 
In  whose  memory  this  monument  was  erected  by 
his  mournfull  widow  who  designes  to  be 
interr'd  [in  the  same]  gr[ave] 

Had  virtue  in  perfection  pow'r  to  f ave 
The  best  of  men  from  the  Devouring  Grave 
Pennant  had  liv'd  but  'tis  in  vain  to  flie 
The  fatal  stroke  where  all  are  doom'd  to  die 
Farewell  lov'd  Spouf  e  since  want  of  Words  appears 
T'exprefs  my  grief  i'll  moan  thy  lofs  in  tears 
Which  like  Nile's  Cataracts  f  hall  tumble  down 
And  with  their  briny  Streams  my  Paf  sions  drown 
Here  may  thy  Afhes  undif turb'd  remain 
Till  thy  wive's  duf t  reuifits  thee  again 
Then  sacred  quiet  to  the  day  of  doom 
Seal  the  inclofure  of  our  catacomb 

Arms  :  Three  bars  wavy,  (this  coat,  with  three  martlets  on  the 
centre  bar,  was  an  ancient  quartering  of  Pennants)  impaling  a  cross  flory 
between  4  martlets. 

Note. — Partly  illegible. 

1 20.  On  a  flat  stone  beneath  the  monument  cut  in  large  letters. 

IOHN  PENNANT  GEN*.  ' 

1709 
Here  lyeth  the  body  of 

S[ARAH  PENNANT] 

with  her  husband  Mr  JOHN 

PENNANT  who  departed  this 

life  the  29th  day  of  Novr 

1713 
Aged  71  years 

Note. — Nearly  illegible  at  present. 

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121.  On  a  flat  stone  :  partly  illegible. 

Here  lyeth 

Intr'd  ye  Body  of 

[Francis]  BRAREWOOD 

who  departed  this  life  y* 

25th  of  September  Aged 

10  Months  5  Days 

Anno  Domini 

1723 

Also  yc  Body  of  DIANA 
BRAREWOOD  who  Died 
Feb  yc  24th  1724-5  Aged 
3  Months 

At  the  other  end  of  the  stone  is  an  inscription  to  Peter  Thomas, 
waterman,  dated  1809. 

122.  On  a  table  monument,  once  surrounded  with  iron  rails :  almost  illegible. 

Here  lyes  the  Body  of 

ROBT  BUTLER  Esq« 

late  of  this  Parish 
who  Died  Decr  12,  1712 

•     Aged  6 1 

Here  also  lyes  the  Body  of 

MRS  MARTHA  BUTLER 

His  wife  who  Died 

the  5th  of  May  1739 

Aged  85 

123.  On  a  large  monument  towards  the  east  end  of  the  recessed  portion  of 
the  north  wall  of  the  churchyard  is  the  following  : 

Near  this  place  under  a  f  tone  with  his 
name  on  it  lye's  interr'd  the  body  of 

ROBERT  WOODCOCK  Gen':  who 
was  born  at  Upton  near  Glocefter  on 

"the  3<Dth  of  September  1642 

and  departed  this  life  at  Cheljey 

the  4th  of  April  1710 

124.  On  a  flat  stone  : 

Sacred  to  the  Memory  of 

JOHN  CHRISTIAN  NEWMAN  Gent 

who  died  December  6th  1766  Aged  57  Years 

Alfo  WILLIAM  MCCANNON 
grandfon  to  the  Above  Aged  5  Months 

Alfo  MRS.  ANN  NEWMAN 
who  died  November  25th  1796  Aged  72  Years 

Another  inscription  to  Patterson  added  to  the  above  in  1820. 
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125.      On  a  flat  stone  : 


126. 


MR  RICHARD  DOODY 
Died  December  12,  1745 

Aged  44  Years 

MK  JOHN  [GLASS] 

Died  November  IIth  1763 

Aged  41  years 

MRS  MARY  TOOLE[Y] 

Died  January  6th  1777 

aged  56  years 


Here  refts 
MRS  MAR  . 


[w]ho  died         i6th  Sepr 


In  the  .  .  Year  of  her  Age 
[E]LIZ[ABET]H  ODDAM 

,  .   .  of  the  above  who  departed 
.    .    .    Aged   .    .    . 


127.      On  a  flat  stone  : 


[Miss]  ESTHER  NEWSHAM 
[died  Novr  1756  Aged  6  years] 

[Hannah  Richards] 
[died  1 6th  1758  Aged  4  years] 

Also 
[Mr]  Richard  [Newsham] 

[of  this  parish] 
[died  March  17,  1760  Aged  42] 

Also 
[Mrs  Richard  Newsham] 

[of  this  parish] 
[died  Dec1  i8th  1779  Aged  65  years] 


CHELSEA 

I2S.      On   a  table  monument  of  stone.     On  the  south  side.     The  whole 
now  almost  illegible. 

UNDER    THIS    MONUMENT 

IV    A    VAULT    ERECTED    BY    HER    FATHER 

I.I  IS    THE    BODY    OF    MKS    SARAH    EYRE    LATE    THE 

WIFE    OF    M" 

FRANCIS    EYRE    AND    ONLY    CHILD    OF    M«     INNES    OF    THIS    TOWN 
SHE    WAS    A    WOMAN    EMINENT    IN    THE    PRACTICE    OF    ALL    MORAL 
VERTUES    AND    OK    A    SWEET    AND    COURTEOUS    DISPOSITION    WHICH 
HUNG    HEIGHTENED    BY    A    REFIN'o    TASTE    AND    IMPROv'o    BY 
I  MVERSAL   READING   RENDER'D   HER  AMIABLE  TO   EVERYONE  WHO   KNEW  HER 
THE    DIFFIDENCE    SHE    HAD    OF    HER    OWN    MERITS    PLAc'o    HER 
AMONGST    THE    MOST    MODEST    OF    HER    SEX    AND    HER    PHILOSOPHIC 
TURN    <»>F    MIND    MADE    THE    TRANSITION    FROM    LIFE    TO    DEATH 
VERY    INCONSIDERABLE    TO    HER    SO    THAT    HAVING    Liv'o    WITHOUT    GUILE 
SHE    DIED    WITHOUT    DOUBTS    BELOVED    AND    LAMENTED    THE    IO    OF 
APRIL    1756    IN    THE    $2    YEAR    OF    HER    AGE 

And  several  lines  entirely  illegible. 

129.  On  a  flat  stone  : 

In  Memory  of 
Mks  ELIZABETH  MASON 

WHO    DEPARTED    THIS    LIFE 

THE    19™    OF    JUNE    1799 

AGED    50    YEARS 

/   WAIT  FOR    THE   LORD   MY   SOUL 
DOTH   WAIT  AND  IN  HIS  WORD 

DO     I     HOPE       PSALM     130    VERSE    5 

130.  On  a  flat  stone  : 

Here  lyeth  the  Body  of 

M«  MARY  LOWE 

Wife  of  M«  HUMPHREY  .LowE 

of  this  Parif h  who  Departed 

this  Life  July  the  30"'  1750 

Aged  57  Years 

Also  the  Body  of 

MK  HUMPHREY  LOWE 

Husband  of  the  said  MARY  LOWE 

who  Departed  this  Life  the 
Twenty  first  day  of  April  1751 

Aged  fifty  three  Years 
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131.  On  a  flat  stone  : 

In  Memory  of 

MR  JOHN  STICKNEY  Carpen' 

Late  of  this  Parifh 

Departed  this  Life 

May  the  i6Ul  1756 

in  the  55th  Year  of  his  Age 

Alfo  HANNAH  his  Widow 

Died  ye  3d  Day  of  February 

1763  Aged  73  Years 

132.  On  a  headstone  : 

IN    MEMORY 

OF 

MRS    JANE    OWEN 
THE    BELOVED    WIFE    OF 

MR     WILLIAM    OWEN 
WHO    DIED    MAY    I3TH     1774 

AGED    60    YEARS 

ALSO    THE    ABOVE    NAMED 

MR     WILLIAM    OWEN 

OF    THIS    PARISH 

DIED    FEBRUARY    25.     1776 

AGED    82    YEARS 

And  later  inscriptions. 

133.  On  a  headstone  : 

To  the  Memory  of 

Mr  James  Tulloh 

of  Turnham  Green 

Who  departed  this  Life 

Novr  the  6th  1 796 

(Aged  63  Years) 

Not  wearied  out  through  length  of  days 
Nor  lingering  Pains  nor  dire  disease 
But  in  the  House  of  God  at  Prayer 
He  unto  Death  fell  a  Victim  there 
A  victim  for  who  could  withstand 
His  fatal  Dart  and  Stern  command 
Hence  Reader  learne  prepar'd  to  be 
Least  unawares  Death  seize  on  thee 

This  stone  was  erected  by  his  disconsolate  widow. 
Note. — Inscription  now  entirely  illegible. 


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On  a  flat  stone  at  the  back  of  the  last : 

In  Memory  of 

MKS  ANN  TULLOH 

who  died  June  13'"  1782 

Aged  49  years 

Alfo  the  Body  of 

MKS  ELIZ™  TIBETTS 

who  departed  this  life  ye  22nd  Nov 

Aged  67  Years 

Alfo  the  Body  of 

MK  JAMES  TULLOH  of  Turnham 

Green  who  departed  this  Life  on 

the  fixth  day  of  November 

[In  Chcswick  Church] 

[During  Divine  Service] 

in  the  [year  of  our]  Lord  /7<?6 

[Aged  63  Years] 

134.     On  a  flat  stone  : 

Here  lyeth  Interred  ye  Body  of 

WILLIAM  FRANCIS  who  departed  this 

Life  ye  i8th  day  of  February  in  ye  8oth  Yeare 

Of  his  Age  Anno  Dom: 

I7[25]   ?6 

Nere  this  place  also  lyes  Interred  two  Wifes 

Of  yc  sayed  WILLIAM  FRANCIS 

Viz  Honour  who  dyed  ye  15th  of  May 

1695     Aged  50  Years 

Also  Elizabeth  who  dyed 
September  1719     Aged  54  Y[ears] 

1 35.  On  a  flat  stone  raised  on  a  stone  curb,  to  the  memory  of  Charles  Lafield 

ALSO  OF 
ELIZABETH  HIS  WIFE 

WHO    DIED    24th    SEPTEMBER    1795 
AGED  38  YEARS 

136.  On  a  flat  stone  : 

Here  lieth  the  Body  of 

MR  SAMUEL  DUFFIELD 

late  of  this  PARISH 

Died  2  Ist  of  April  1772 

Aged  52  years 
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137.  On  a  flat  stone  . 

Here  Lyeth  Interr'd  the  Body 
of  MKS  BARBARA  MORRIS  Late 
Wife  of  MK  BENJAMIN   MORRIS 
who  departed  this  life  ye  2"  of 
February  \~J2\     Aged  27  Years 

138.  On  a  flat  stone  : 

Here  lyeth  the  Body  of 

MR  WILLIAM  SWINDELL 

late  of  Knightsbridge  Brewer 

who  departed  this  life  1 8th  of  May  1742 

Aged  44  Years 

Alfo  the  Body  of 

MRS  ANN  SWINDELL 

Wife  of  the  abovesaid  who  dyed 

December  3oth  1742  in  the  52nd  Year 

of  her  Age 

139.  On  a  flat  stone  : 

In  Memory  of 

SAMUEL  DUFFIELD  fon  of 

THOMAS  and  ANN  DUFFIELD 

of  ST  George's  Bloomsbury 

who  departed  this  life 

June  24th  1765 
Aged  5  years  and  1 1  months 

Alfo 

to  the  Memory  of 

The  above  MRH  ANNE  DUFFIELD 

who  departed  this  life 

May  14th  1798 

Aged  82  Years 

Alfo 

to  the  Memory  of 

The  above  MK  THOS  DUFFIELD 

who  departed  this  life 

March  5th  1800 

Aged  75  Years 

140.  On  a  flat  stone  : 

[Sacrejd  to  the  Memory  of 

AIR  JOHN  GASKELL 

who  died  Dec  3d  1778 

Aged  29 

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i_p.      On  a  flat  stone  : 

Here  Lyeth  the  Body  of  Mr 

IOHN  HERGEST  of 

ST  Martins  in  the  Fields  who 

Departed  this  Life  the  tenth 

Day  of  June  Anno  Domini 

1721  in  the  fortie  fifth 

year  of  his  age. 

142.  On  a  table  monument  surrounded  with  iron  rails  : 

Sacred  to  the  Memory  of  SAMUEL  RUSH 

The  only  Son  of  SAMUEL  and  HENRIETTA 

MARIA 'RUSH  of  BROMPTON  in  the 

COUNTT  of  MI  DDK  who  after  a 

Painful  struggle  for  many  years  with  ill 

Health  departed  this  Life  9th  April  1799 

in  the  15th  Year  of  his  Age 

The  pious  and  manly  virtues  of  his  mind 
the  softer  graces  of  innocence  and  youth 
and  the  truly  excellent  disposition  of  a  heart 
improved  into  the  highest  sense  of  filial  duty 
and  affection ;  and  which  by  natyre  seemed 
to  be  born  for  all  that  was  good  and  amiable 
have  made  his  loss  to  his  fond  and  afflicted 
parents,  who  were  long  the  partners  of  his  pains 
and  sufferings,  irreparable  and  who  with 
his  relatives  and  friends  for  ever  will  lament  him 
In  resignation  in  grief  and  affliction  his  sorrowing 
parents  now  pay  this  tribute  to  his  honoured 
memory  as  the  last  sad  proof  of  their 
piety  and  parental  love 

Also  to  Samuel  Rush  1820. 

143.  On  a  flat  stone  defaced  three  parts  down  : 

MR  [SAMUEL  GIL]BERT 

Di[ed  March  n  1780 

Aged  .  .  .  Years] 

Alfo  IANE  JENNINGS 
Wife  of  the  above  SAM.  GILBIRT 

Died  Nov  26  1793  Aged  59 
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144.  On  a  flat  stone,  partly  defaced,  against  the  wall  : 

[Here  lyeth]  the  Body  of 

[.\!ARY  CADE  Daugjhter  of 

[MR  LUKE  and  ELIZABETH]  CADE 

[of  this  Parish  Died  March  2  Ist]  1784 

[in  the  23d  year  of  her]  Age 

[also  MRS  ELIZABETH]  CADE 

[Wife  of  MR  LUKE  CADE] 

[She  died  June  22d.  1800] 

[Aged  80  years] 
And  others  after  1800. 

145.  On  a  flat  stone  now  against  the  wall  beside  that  of  Cade  and  to  the 
east  of  the  Rush  table  monument. 


3n  flBemori?  of 

MR  STEPHEN  WHEELER  JACOB 
CITIZEN  and  FINTNF.R  of  LONDON 

late  of  this  Parifh 
Died  October  28th  1784 

Aged  37  years 
Also  Mrs.  Mary  Jacob,  1821. 

146.  On  a  flat  stone  :       Here  lyeth  ye  Body  of 

Mr  lohn  hodge  of  Sl 

Clements  danes  Who 

Departed  this  life  ye  2d  of 

April  ann  Dom,  I7o[3] 

In  ye  58  year  of  his  age 

Also  underneath  this  stone  Lyeth  the 

Body  of  MR  IOHN  ODER  of  [this  Parish] 

who  Departed  this  Life  the  29[th  of  MayJ 

1732  in  the  57th  Year  of  his  [Age] 

147.  On  a  flat  stone  :  Here  lies  the  Body- 

of  MRS  ANN  BUNCE 

Wife  of  MR  THOMAS  BUNCE 

of  this  Parish  who  departed 

this  life  March  13"'  1793 

Aged  30  years 


.  RACHEL  BUNCE  Wife  of 
THOMAS  BUNCE  who  died  at 
[Marylebon]  June  .   .  .   1801 

[35  7ears] 


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14*.     A  headstone,  mostly  illegible,  now  thrown  down  on  its  face. 

149.  A  flat  stone  partly  illegible.    Thos:  Jones,  and  Mrs.  Anne  Jones. 

150.  On  a  flat  stone  : 

In  [Memory  of] 

MRS  MARY  PAGE  [Widow  of  the] 

late  CAPTAIN  PAGE  ...  in  His 

[MAJESJTYS  R[egi]ment  of 

Dragoon  G[uards  w]ho  died 

[March  26th]  1781  in  the  62d  Year 

of  her  Age 

151.  Qn  a  flat  stone  : 

In  Memory  of 

MKS  SARAH  HOWELL 

who  died  November  2nd  1798 

Aged  45  Years 

And  others  later  than  1800. 

152.  On  a  flat  stone  : 

[B]ODY  of 

[JOSEPH  COO]KSON 

of  this  PARISH 

who  dep[arte]d  this  life 

Aged  54  Years 

Alfo  of MARY  COOKSON 

Wife  of  the  above  Died 
May  the  4'"  1773  Aged  66 

MR  GEORGE  COOKSON 

Ormond  Houfe  Paradife  Row 
July  29'"  1791     Aged  Sixty  one 
•   -.  to  the  above  Joseph  Cook/on 

153.       On  a  flat  stone  : 

In  Memory  of 

MR  ROBERT  TATE  of  this  Parish 

Died  the  6th  of  Janry  1780 

Aged  47  years 

Also 

MR  SAMUEL  SUTTON  who  was 
Born  in  the  Parish  of  Penshurst  in 

Kent  March  24  17-6 
Died  in  this  Parish  March  i8'  1706 

Remainder  illegible. 
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154.  On  a  flat  stone  with  a  coat  of  Arms  defaced  : 

[Here  lies  Interred 

Mr  Alexander  Reid  &  Frances  his  Wife 

He  died  November  3d  1735  Aged  40 

She  died  May  12,  1743  Aged  60 

Likewise 

Six  of  their  Children 

Mr.  George  Reid  died  July  25th  1745  Aged  .   .   . 
Mr  John  Reid  died  May  5th  1755  Aged  33] 

EMANUEL  and  IAMES 
HENRIETTA  and  ITHAMAR 
Died  Infants 

Alfo 

MR  THOMAS  REID 
who  Died  Novr  19  1778  in  his  5oth  year 

155.  Against   the   north  wall   of    the  Church  is  an  oblong  tablet  with 
sarcophagus-shaped  wings  on  which  are  inscribed  a  skull  and  crossbones  sur- 
mounted by  an  hour-glass. 

Here  lyeth  the  Body  o/MRS  JOANNA  RHODES 

the  wife  of  CHRISTOPHER  RHODES  Esqre  and 

Daughter  o/SiR  OLIVER  BOTELLER  Bart  of  Teston 

in  Kent  She  died  May  y6  .  .  1757  aged  74 

Reader 

The  Hour  approaches 

and  Thou  Heedest  it  not 

the  Fatal  Moment  steals  on  apace 

and  Thou  regardest  it  not 

Yet  a  little  while  and  Thou  also 

Shall  descend  to  the  Mansion  of  .  .  . 

And  mingle  with  the  .  .  . 

Wouldst  thou  he  happy 

Be  Virtuous 

and 

Follow 

156.  On  a  flat  stone  : 

In  Memory  of 

MRS  MARGARET  Wife  of 

MR  THOMAS  ROWLEY 

CARPENTER  of  this  PARISH 

Died  January  ye  3Otb  1781 

Aged  48  Years 

[To  this  Sad  Stone  Whoere  thou  art  draw  near 
Here  lies  the  friend  Most  lov'd  the  Wife  most  dear 
Who  neer  knew  Joy  but  friendship  might  divide 
Or  gave  her  husband  Grief  but  when  she  died! 

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157.     A  flat  stone,  illegible-  except  a  date  1771  and  a  name  Parkins  of  a  date- 
about  1810,  folloued  by  other  inscriptions. 

i  ;S.        On  a  flat  stone  : 

In  Memory  of 

MK  JOHN  GYLES 

late  of  this  PARISH 

BARGE  BUILDER 

Died  JANUARY  17th  1783 

Aged  69  Years 

Also  of  MRS  REBECCA  GYLES 
Wife  of  the  above  died  February 
[the]  ioth]  1793  Aged  72  [YJears 

And  others  after  1800. 

1 59.  On  a  flat  stone  : 

Here  Lieth  the  Body  of  MR  JOHN  MANN 
of  this  Parish  who  Died  December  y°  roth 

1728  Aged  65  years 
Alfo  the  Body  of  HENRY  MANN  SON 
Who  Died  May  y6  31,  1743  Aged  44  Years 
Alfo  [8]  More  of  their  Children  ' 

who  Died  in  their  Infancy 

Alfo  the  Body  of  Mks  SARAH  MANN 

Wife  of  the  Abovesaid  JOHN  MANN 

who  Died  April  y«  24th  1755 

Aged  [84]  Years 

Alfo  6  of  their  Grand  Children 

who  Died  in  their  Infancy 

Alfo  here  lyeth  the  Body  of 

ELIZABETH  MARY  Daughter  of 

the  Abovesaid  JOHN  and  SARAH  MANN 

who  died  August  y6  13,  1759  Aged  25  Years 

Alfo  lieth  the  Body  of  JOHN  MANN 

Grandson  of  the  above  JOHN  MANN 

Died  May  19,  1763  Aged  5  years 

Alfo  Here  lieth  the  Body  of 

M';  JOHN  MANN  son  of  the  Above 

JOHN  and  SARAH  MANN  who  died 

April  the  7th  1774 

Aged  62  Years 

Alfo  the  Body  of  MRS  SARAH  MANN 

Widow  of  the  above  died  25'  Octr  1801 

Aged  59  years 

1 60.  A  table  monument,  not  decipherable.    Part  of  the  name  appears  on 
the  North  side  :   Capt:  Samuel  S  .  .  .  . 

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161.      On  a  table  monument  of  stone  : 

In  this  [P ' auli\  lie  the  Bodies  of 

MR  ANTHONY  BROMWICH 

of  the  PARISH  of  ST  CLEMENTS  DANES 

[who  died  Sepr  15th  1692  Aged  84  years] 

And  ANN  Wife  of 

MR  GEORGE  BROMWICH 

who  died  Decemr  15th  1694  Aged  52  years 

Also  MR  GEORGE  BROMWICH 
[Clerk  of  the  Check  to  the  Messengers 

eldest  son  of] 

MR  ANTHONY-  BROMWICH 

who  died  March  [i5th  1691  Aged  51  years] 

Alfo  MR  ANTHONY  BROMWICH  [Junior] 

Apothecary  [and  CITIZEN  OF  LONDON 

who  died  Decemr  i8th  1697  Aged  52  years 

Alfo  MK  Tho  Bromwich 

of  this  Parish  son  of] 

MR  [Anthony  Bromwich  Senior] 

who  died  [August  5th  1710  Aged  63  years] 

A[nd  Elizabeth]  W[ife  of] 

MR  THOMAS  [BROMWICH] 

Daughter  of  MR  [Sam'  Smith] 

[of  this  PARISH] 
who  died  April  [i5th  1714  Aged  47  years] 

On  the  South  Side  (all  illegible)  : 

In  this  vault  lie  the  Bodies  of 
Mr  Robert  Abbott 

of  this  Parish 
who  died  October  Ist  1727 

Aged  77  years 

Mrs  Ann  Abbott 

and  Daughter  of 

Mr  Tho:  and  Elizabeth  Bromwh 

died  Novr  7th  1720 

Aged  59  years 
Also  two  Reids  after  1813. 

On  the  North  Side  (all  illegible)  : 

In  the  Vault  lie  the  Bodies  of 
Mr  Thomas  Abbott 

of  this  Parish 
who  died  February  5,  1773 

Aged  64  years 

And  Mra  Jane  Abbott 

wife  of  Mr  Thomas  Abbott 

who  died  April  26th  1 765 

Aged  56  years  75 


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162.  On  a  headstone  :    partly  illegible  : 

/  \  MKMORT  OF 
MRS  ELIZABETH  GROVE 

WHO    DIED    AUGUST   THE    Ist   179! 
AGED    29   YEARS    .     .     • 

ELIZA  DAUGHTER  OF  THE  ABOVE 

DIED    AUGUST    8"'     179!     AGED    3    WEEKS 

Remainder  after  1800 

163.  On  a  flat  stone  : 

EGERTON  EVANS  son  of 

RICHARD  EVANS  Esqr  and 

his  wife  DIANA  (of  the 

Paryh  of  Chelsea)  born 

the  25th  day  of  January 

1714  and  departed  this 

life  the  [i 5th  of  Mar  17}* 

Aged  seven  weeks 

Richard  Evans 

second  son  Died  on 

the  27  of  August 

1717  aged  12  day8] 

164.  On  a  headstone  against  the  wall  : 

In  Memory  of 

MRS  MARY  RATTRAY 

who  died  August  the  14th  I78[6] 

Aged  38  Years 

Also  David  Rattray  after  1800 

165.  Munden  (illegible). 

1 66.  A  large  monument  in  Portland  stone  to  Sir  Hans  Sloane,  Bt.,  standing 
in  the  S.E.  corner  of  the  churchyard.     This  consists  of  a  pedestal  with 
moulded  cornice  and  plinth  having  enriched  inscription  panels  on  the  north 
and  south  faces  and  carved  on  the  east  and  west  with  heraldic  emblems. 
On  the  pedestal  is  a  large  funeral  urn  carved  with  serpents  beneath  a  canopy 
supported    by  four  semicircular  arches  springing  from  four  square    angle 
columns.    The  spandrils  above  the  arches  are  carved,  and  round  the  whole 
there  runs  an  unbroken  entablature  of  Doric  detail.     The  monument  is 
finished  above  with  a  flat  pyramidal  stone. 

On  the  East  side  are  the  following  arms :    Gules,  a  sword  in  pale,  point 
down,  argent,  hilt  and  pommel  or  between  two  boars'  heads  cut  off  at  the 

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neck,  or,  on  a  chief  ermine  a  lion  passant  gules  between  two  mascles  sable. 
On  an  escutcheon  of  pretence  quarterly,  I   &  4,  argent  a  cockatrice  sable 
(Langley),  2  &  3,  argent,  on  a  bend  vert  three  wolves'  heads  erased  argent 
(Middleton). 
The  inscriptions  are  : 

On  the  north  face  : 

Here  lies  interred 

ELIZABETH  Lady  SLOANE 

wife  of  Sir  Hans  Sloane  Bar1 

who  departed  this  life 

in  the  year  of  our  Lord  1724 

and  the  67  of  her  age 

On  the  south  face  : 

To  the  memory  of 

SIR  HANS-  SLOANE  BART 

President  of  the  Royal  Society, 
and  of  the  College  of  Physicians, 
who  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  1753, 

the  92d  of  his  age 

without  the  least  pain  of  body 

and  with  a  conscious  serenity  of  mind, 

ended  a  virtuous  and  beneficent  life. 

This  monument  was  erected 

by  his  two  daughters 

ELIZA    CADOGAN    and    SARAH    STANLEY 

167.  On  a  flat  stone  : 

Under  this  stone  lies  the  Body  [of] 

Mks  MARTHA  BATES  Wife  of 
MR  JOSEPH  BATES  of  this  Parifh 

Died  9th  November  1757 

and  their  son  MR  THOMAS  BATES 

Died  November  the  21  1791 

Aged  56  Years 
And  others  after  1 800. 

168.  A  headstone  against  the  East  Wall  of  the  Chancel : 

SUSANNA 

late  Wife  of 

MR  JEHU  HOWELL 

of  this  Parifh 
Died  October  23  1776 

Aged  6 1  Years 

Alfo  MR  JEHU  HOWELL 

Huf  band  of  the  above 

Died  Octr  5th  1787 

Aged  8 1  Years 

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(  III  LSEA 

169.     A  portion  of  a  stone  adjoining  the  latter  to  the  south,  name  illegible. 

170.*     A  long,  narrow  stone  to  the  south  of  the  above  : 

[Here  also]  lyeth  the  Body  of  ROBERT  CHURCHIL 

Son  of  ANDREW  and  MARGARET  CHURCHIL  Who 

I  )cparted  this  life  the  [l9tb  day  of  ...  1738] 

Jn  the  2[9th]  Year  of  his  Age 

171.*     A  similar  but  smaller  stone  to  the  South  of  the  above  : 

ALSO    THE    BODY    OF 

MR  ANDREW  CHURCHIL 

AND  MARGARET  HIS 

WIFE  HE  DIED  AUGUST 

THE  5TH   1734  AGED  62 

YEARS  SHE  DIED  FEB 
THE  JD  1732  AGED  59 

YEARS 

172.  A  flat  stone  broken  in  several  pieces  : 

Underneath  this  stone 
is  Interr'd  the  Body  of 

MRS  MARY  BERWICK 
Wife  of 

MR  B 

On  an  adjoining  fragment  : 

....  year  of  her  .... 

....  above  named 

....  BERWICK 

....  Jan"  13th  1778 

....  80  Years 
On  a  very  small  fragment  : 

[BER]WIC[K] 

173.  On  a  flat  stone  :  TO  THE  MEMORY 

OF 

Mk  JOHN  PRICE 

OF   THIS    PARISH 

WHO    DEPARTED    THIS    LIFE 

THE    30th    DAY    OF    JUNE    1785 

AGED    75    YEARS 

/.'/.    II'. IS     /.V   AFFECTIONATE  HUSBAND 

AN   INDULGENT   FATHl-K, 
AND  A    TRULY  HONEST   WORTHY    WIN 

*  Thfif  two  inscriptions  are  stated  by  Robt.  Chambers  in  bis  MS.  in  the   Chelsea  Library  to 
have  been  cm  the  south  side  of  a  table  monument  to  Samuel  Forrest,  who  died  in  1692 

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ALSO 

TO    THE    MEMORY 
OF 

MKS  MARGARET  PRICE 

RELICT    OF    THE    ABOVE 

WHO    DEPARTED    THIS    LIFE 

THE    15™    DAY    OF    SEPTEMBER    IJC)l 

AGED    76    YEARS 
WHO    WAS   A    SINCERE   CHRISTIAN 

AN    EXEMPLARY    WIFE 
.1X1)    A    MOST    TEXDER   MOTHER 

174.       On  a  flat  stone  : 

In  the  adjoining  Grave 

are  depofited  the  Remains  of 

MR  JOHN  COLLINS 

late  of  this  Parif  h 

who  died  17th  Auguft  1761 

Aged  46  Years 

Alfo  the  Remains  of 

MRS  ELIZABETH  COLLINS 

Relict  of  the  above 

MR  JOHN  COLLINS 

who  died  24th  October  1787 

Aged  74  Years 

Likewife  in  the  adjoining  Grave 

are  depofited  the  Remains  of 

MR  JOHN  COLLINS 

son  of  the  above 

JOHN  AND  ELIZABETH  COLLINS 

who  died  13th  October  1789 

Aged  42  Years 

Alfo  in  the  adjoining  Grave 

I  are  depofited  the  Remains  of 

MRS  SARAH  COLLINS 

Relict  of  the  above 

MK  JOHN  COLLINS 

who  died  \j^  January  1798 

Aged  52  years 
And  two  more  after  1800. 


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Chamberlaine. 


i-;.     On  a  large  stone  tablet  with  a  shaped  head  against  the  S.W.  corner 
of  the  nave,  with  two  small  brackets  under  : 

1703 

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IMBUTUS  FUIT 

PER  GALLIAM,  HISPANIAM,  ITALIAM,  HUNGARIAM 

BOHEMIAN,  UTRAMQUE  GERMANIAM,  DANIAM 

ET  SUECIAM 

MIGRAVIT 

SUSAN  NAM  CLIFFORD  EX  EQUESTRI  FAMILIA  PROGNATA 

IN  MATRIMONIUM  DUXIT  1658 

NOVEM  LlBEROS  GENUIT  SEX  LlBROS  COMPOSUIT 

TANDEM  1703  IN  TERRAM  OBLIVIONIS 

SEMIGRAVIT 

BENEKACIENDI  UNIVERSIS  ETIAM  ET  POSTERIS 

A  DEO  STUDIOSUS  FUIT,  ur  SECUM  CONDI 

Q]USSERIT  LlBROS  ALIQUOT  SUOS  CERA  OBVOLUTOS 

SERAE  FORSAN  POSTERITATI  ALIQUANDO  PROFUTUROS 

ABI  VIATOR,  FACSIMILE 
DEUS  TE  SERVET  INCOLUMEM 

HOC    MoNUMENTUM 

NON  IMPUNE  TEMERANDUM 

IN  AMORIS  JUXTA  AC  MCERORIS  TESTIMONIUM 

PON i  CURAVIT 

GUAL.  HARRIS 

M.D. 

AMICUS.  AMICO 
80 


CHELSEA 


On  the  lower  portion  of  the  last  tablet  is  the  following  : 

Whereas  the  Abovementioned  Edward  Chamberlayne 
Did  Intend  by  deed  or  Will  to  Settle  A  certain 

Annual  sum  upon  this  Parish  for  Charitable 

Ufes  his  Son  John  in  duty  to  his  will  &  refpect 

to  his  memory  has  given  Ten  Pounds  per  Ann 

for  Ever  to  pay  for  the  instruction  of  five  Poor 

Children  Natives  of  this  parifh  in 

the  adjoyning  Charity  School 

and  apprenticing  one  of  ye 

Said  Children  yearly 

1 76.       On  a  small  pedimented  tablet  on  the  west  side  of  the  south  door 

POSTERITATE    SACRUM 
HlC    IUXTA    SITUS    EST    PEREGRINUS    CLIFFORD 

CHAMBERLAYNE  Dux  MARINUS  FILIUS  NATU 
MAXIMUS  EDVARDI  CHAMBERLAYNE 

LEGUM  DOCTORIS 

NATUS.FUIT  HAGAE  COMITIS  20°  JAN.  1660 

Qui  TUM  LINGUIS  SCIENTIIS  LIBERALIBUS 

STUDIO  LEGUM  MUNICIPALIUM  ARTIBUS 

PlNGENDI,  PSALLENDI,   DIGLADIANDI,  MODULANDI 

TERRA  ET  REGIONES  DlMETIENDI 
SED  PR^  OMNIBUS  OPERAM  NAVIGANDI  DEDISSET 

QUATTUOR  MUNDI  PLAGAS  LUSTRASSET,  REGI 
PATRI^  FIDELITER  AC  STRENUE  CONTRA  GALLOS 

ET    IN  DOS    MERUISSET.       HEU    PRAEMATURE    IN 

TERRAS  OBLIVIONIS  SEMIGRAVIT 

6.    NOVEM.    1691. 

HOC    MONUMENTUM    NON    IMPUNE    TEMERANDUM 
PONI    CURAVIT    MO2RENS    PATER 


Upon    a    strip    of    marble    over    the    south    door    is   the   following 
inscription  : 

177.  Hie  JUXTA  IN  CONDITORIO  DEpoNiTUR  EDVARDUS  CHAMBERLAYNE 

FILIUS  NATU  |  MINIMUS  EDV.  CHAM.  L.L.DRIS  QUI  IN  SCHOLA  WESTMON 
POSTEA  IN  ACADEM  OxON  DEINDE  IN  COL.  T'EMPLI  INTF.RIORIS  LoND  :  EDUCATUS, 
TANDEM  PRO  REGE  ET  PATRIA  CONTRA  GALLOS  PER  MARE  MERERI  MALUIT,  UBI 
PER  SEPTF.NNIUM  VITAM  AGENS  MARINAM  TUM  DEMUM  |  FATALE  PLEURITIDE 
INTRA  QUATRIDUUM  ABREPTUS  FUIT  OPTIMA  SPEI  IUVENIS  NATUS  NONO  | 
KAL.  OCTOB.  MDCLXIX  DENATUS  PRIDIE  IDUS  MAII  :  MDCXCVIII 

Hoc  MONUMENTUM  PONI  CURAVIT  PATER  MOERENS 

F  8  I 


CHELSEA 

( )n  a  -mull  tabK-t  with  a  pediment  over  and  two  small  brackets  under 
the  tablet,  on  the  ea>t  side  of  the  south  door  : 

178.  ^  P.  S. 

UlC    JUXTA    IN    CoNDlTORIO    IACET    ANNA 

I.mvARDi  CHAMBERLAYNE  LL.D.  FILIA  UNICA 
LONDINI  NATA  xx°  IANUARII  1667 

Qu^    DIU    SPRETO    CONNUBIO    MACNAQUE 

SUPRA    SEXUM    ET    CETATEM    MOLIENS 

XXX"    luNII.     1690 

CONTRA  FRANCIGENAS  ARMIS,  HABITUQUE  VIRILI. 

IN    RATE    FLAMMIFERA    SEX    HORAS    SUB    DUCE    FRATRE 

PUCNAVIT  DUM  VIRGO  FUIT  DUM  CASTA  VIRAGO 
HEROUM  POTERAT  STIRPEM  GENERARE  MARINAM 

Nl  PRAEMATURIS  FATIS  ABREPTA  FUISSET 

REDUX  AB  ISTA  NAVALI  PUGNA  AC  POST  ALIQUQT 

MENSES  NUPTA         JoANNI  SPRAGG  ARMIGERO  " 

QUOCUM  VIXIT  AMANTISSIME  SESQUIANNUM  TANDEM 

l.MXA  FILIAM  POST  PAUCOS  DIES  OBIIT 

XXXC  OCTOBRIS  1691 

HOC  MONUMENTUM  UXORI  CHARISSIMAE  NEC  NON 

PUDICISSIMvE  PONI  CURAVIT  MARITUS 

MOESTISSIMUS 


179.  On  another  larger  stone  tablet  near  the   S.E.  corner,  resembling 
No.  175  : 

NEAR  THIS  PLACE 
IN  A  VAULT  BELONGING  TO 
THE  FAMILY  LIES  INTERRED 

THE  BODY  OF  SUSANNA 

CHAMBERLAYNE  LATE  WIDOW 

OF  DR  EDWARD  CHAMBERLAYNE 

AND  ONLY  DAUGHTER  OF  RlCHARD 

CLIFFORD  ESQ  DESCENDED  FROM 

THE  ANCIENT  AND  NOBLE  FAMILY 

OF  THE  CLIFFORDS  LORDS  OF 
FRAMPTON  IN  THE  COUNTY  OF 
GLOCESTER  AGED  SIXTY  NINE  YEARS  AND 

3  MONTHS  SHE  DYED  THE  17  OF 

DECEMBER  IN  THE  YEAR  01    OUR  LORD 

1703 

1 80.  Illegible. 

1 8 1.-     Illegible. 
82 


CHELSEA 

182.     A  table    monument   of   stone   just   to   the  east  of  No.  145  (the  flat 
stone  to  Stephen  Wheeler  Jacob)  almost  illegible. 

Robt:  Chambers  gives  the  following  inscriptions  : 


On  the  slab  at  top  : 


Christopher  Cratford 

Gentleman 

of  the  Parish  of 

Sl  Giles  in  the  Fields 

buried  here  by 

his  own  order 

He  dyed  November  the  8th 

1782  Aged  82 


On  the  south  side  : 

Here  lies  ye  Body  of 
Clayton  Milborne  Esqre 
of  ye  Parish  of  Sl  Giles  in  ye  Fields 
He  died  Sept  12  1726  TEt:  47 
Haueing  Purchased  y6  ground 
Whereon  this  Tomb  is  erected 
Of  this  Parish  for  a  Buryal 
Place  for  y6  above  named 
Christopher  Cratford  his 
I  ricle,  Himself  &  Family 
Anno  1702 


Also  the  Body  of 

Clayton  Milborne  Esq 

Eldest  son  of  the  aforesaid 

Clayton  Milborne 

who  died  the  IIth  of  June  1744 

in  the  28th  year  of  his  Age 

Here  Lieth  the  Body 

Christopher  Milborne  Esqre 

he  departed  this  Life  the  19th 

of  August  1802  Aged  87 


At  the  east  end 


Here  lies  also  intered 

the  Body  of 
Ann  Milborne 

the  Wife  of 

Christ1  Milborne  Esqre 

who  departed  this  Life 

the  2nd  of  August  1707 

Aged  60  Years 


APPENDIX 

•LIST  OF  KI-XTOKS,  AND  INCUMBENTS  OF  THE  OLD  CHURCH 

Rectors : 

Reginald  de  S»  Albans  . .    1289-90101299 

Sir  Robert  de  Starandone 

Roller  de  Berncrs          . .  ..  . .  1316 

William  dc  Bray          ..  ..  1316101318-19 

Nicholas  Hosbounde    ..  1318-19101348 

Martin  de  Moulish      ..  1348 

William  Palmer            ..  1368 

Thomas  de  Preston      . .  . .  . .  . .  1 368 

John  Basset       ..  ..  1368101371 

John  Wright  de  Stansted  . .  1371  to  1372 

[ohn  de  Foydon  (v.  Foxdon)  1372  to  1374 

Richard  Mokynton 1385 

Richard  Everdon         ..  ..  13851^1388 

John  Beaugraunt          ..  ..  ..  ..  1388*101392 

John  Bishop      ..          ..  ..  ..  ..  1392101394 

John  Balsham   ..          ..  ..  ..  ..  1394101394-5 

Robert  Orum   . .          . .  . .  . .  . .  1 394-5 

John  Cambridge           ..  ..  ..  ...  1406 

Peter  HyneuyL            ..  ..  ..  ..  1411 

John  Abbey      ..          ..  ..  ..  ..  1411 

Robert  Broun  ..           ..  ..  ..  ..  1413 

Richard  Cosyn             ..  ..  ..  ..  1413 

John  Scarburgh            . .  . .  . .  . .  H33 

Geoffrey  Medewe        . .  . .  . .  . .  1433  to  1435 

Alexander  Broun          ..  ..  ..  ..  1435101442 

Thomas  Boleyn            ..  ..  ..  ..  1442 

William  Walesby          v  ..  ..  ..  T45° 

William  Lilly    ..          ..  ..  ..  ..  1450101451 

Thomas  Shalers            ..  ..  ..  ..  1451 

William  Fideon           ..  ..  ..  ..  1451101454 

John  Pennant  ..          ..  ..  ..  ..  1454101455 

"William  Hcbbing         ..  ..  ..  ..  1455-6101456 

William  Massanger       ..  ..  ..  ..  1456101469-70 

William  Mille  ..          ..  ..  ..  ..  1469101481 

John  Mardelay             ..  ..  ..  ..  1481101486 

Thomas  Machey,  A.M.  . .  . .  . .  1486  to  1492 

( leorge  Percy  alias  Card  . .  . .  . .  1492 

\\illiamlngelard          ..  ..  ..  ..  1502 

Robert  Tunstall           ..  ..  ..  ..  1502101503 

Thomas  Loworth        ..  ..  ..  ..  1503 

Robert  Dandie             ..  ..  ..  ..  1530 

*   For  further  information  sec  Hennessey's  Repertorium  Ecclrsiasticum,  and  Randall  Davics' 
CbtUra  Old  Church. 

H4 


APPENDIX 


John  Larke        ..          ..          ..  ..  ..  1530101543 

Robert  Richardson       ..           ..  ..  ..  1543101554 

James  Proctor  ..          ..          ..  ..  ..  1554 

Richard  Myers             ..          ..  ..  ..  1554101558 

Matthew  Myers           ..          ..  ..  ..  1558 

Robert  Richardson       . .          . .  . .  . .  Restored 

John  Churchman         ..           ..  ..  ..  1569101574 

Thomas  Browne,  S.T.B.         . .  . .  . .  1574  to  1585 

*Richard  Ward  . .          ..           ..  ..  ..  1585101615 

George  Hambden,  A.M.         ..  ..  ..  1615  to  1632 

Samuel  Wilkinson        ..          ..  ..  ..  1632101669 

Adam  Littleton,  D.D.            ..  ..  ..  1669-70101694 

John  King,  D.D.         ..          ..  ..  ..  1694101732 

Sloane  Elsmere             ..          ..  ..  ..  1732101766 

Reginald  Heber            . .          . .  . .  . .  1766  to  1770 

Thomas  Drake,  LL.D.            . .  . .  . .  1770  to  1775 

W.  Bromley  Cadogan,  M.A.  . .  . .  . .  ^775  to  T797 

Charles  Sturgess,  M.A.           . .  . .  . .  *797  to  1805 

Hon.  G.  V.  Wellesley             1805  to  1832 

John  William  Lockwood,  M.A.  .  .  .  .  1832  to  1836 

Charles  Kingsley,  M.A 1836101860 

A.  Gerald  W.  Blunt,  M.A 1860  to  1901 

Archdeacon  H.  E.  J.  Bevan,  M.A.  . .  . .  1902 

Incumbents  : 

John  Rush,  LL.B.      ..          ..  ..  ..  1832101855 

Robert  Henry  Davies,  M.A.  . .  . .  1855  to  1908 

Sherburne  Povah  Tregelles  Prideaux,  M.A.  1908  to  1912 

Malcolm  Stuart  Farmer,  M.A.  ..  ..  1912  to  1916 

Weston  Henry  Stewart,  M.A.  ..  ..  1916 


He  left  a  gift  of  £15  to  the  poor  of  the  parish  and  to  repairing  the  lead. 

85 


INDEX    TO   NAMES 


Page 

Abbott,    Thomas,    also    Ann,    Jane   and 

Robert  75 

Altham,  Edward  43 

Anderson,  Edward  <i\ 

Anglesey,  Charles,  Earl  of  35 
Anglesey,  Mary,  Countess  of,  see  Gorges. 

Arnold,  Miles  4 

Ashburnham,  Hon.  William  5 

Aubrey,  John                                              -  25 


Page 

Buck,  Sir  Peter    -  42 

Buck,  James,  Francis,  Elizabeth,  Charles, 

John  and  Richard  (children  of  James)      43 
Buckby,  Maria  16,  17 

Buckby,  William  17 

Bunce,  Ann,  also  Rachel  and  Thomas  71 

Burleigh,  Lord    -  2 

Burnell,  H.  H.  8 

Butler,  Martha  and  Robert  -  64 


Banks,  Ann  57 

Banning,        Mary,       Viscountess,  see 

Gorges. 

Banning,  Paul,  Viscount  35 

Barker,  Susannah  54 

Barnard,  James    -  16,  22 
Barnard,  Ursula,  see  Hungerford. 
Barnard,  Winifred,  see  Jervoise. 

Bateman,  Elizabeth  -       12 
Bates,  Joseph,  also  Martha  and  Thomas       77 

Bath  and  Wells,  George,  Bishop  of  45 

Bayley,  Mary  Anne  51 

Bedford,  Paul  40 

Beech,  John  and  Sarah  24 

Bentley,    John,    also   Maria,    Mary  and 

Michael  34 

Bernini,  Paolo  43 

Berwick,  Mary  78 

Bolney,  George   -  50 

Bolney,  Mary  49,  50 

BoteDer,  Sir  Oliver,  Bt.  73 
Boteller,  Joanna,  see  Rhodes. 

Brarewood,  Francis  and  Diana  64 

Bray,  Edmund,  Lord   -                  -  6,  17,  1 8 

Bray,  John,  2nd  Lord  -  1 8 

Bray,  John  1 8 
Bray,  Margery,  see  Lady  Sandes. 

Bray,  Reginald  Moore,  K.C.  1 8 

Bray,  Sir  Reginald  1 8 

Bridge,  Anna       -  -       20 

Brigham,  Nicholas  36 

Bringhurst,  Edward  7 
Bromwich,  Anthony,  also  George,  Thomas, 

Ann  and  Elizabeth  71; 

Brown,  John       -        -        -        -  51 

Bruce,  William    -  49 

Bubb,  Anne  and  Thomas  56 
Bubb,  Elizabeth,  see  Lindsay. 
Buck,  James         _____       ^2 

Buck,  Elizabeth  -  42,  43 

Buck,  Mary  and  Mathew  42 


Cade,  Elizabeth,  Mary  and  Luke   -  71 

Cadogan,  Eliza    -  77 

Cadogan,  Rev.  Hon.  William  Bromley  9,  85 
Caldwell,  John  and  Susannah  61 

Caryll,  John  22 

Castelnaut,  Marquis  of,  see  Caumont. 
Caumont,  Elizabeth  de,  Marchioness  de 

Cugnac  23,  24 

Caumont,  Henry  de,  Marquis  de  Castel- 
naut -  -  24 
Caumont,  James  de,  Due  de  la  Force  -  24 
Caumont,  Peter  de,  Marquis  de  Cugnac  24 
Cecil,  Sir  Robert  -  2 
Chaloner,  Edmund  43 
Chambers,  Eliza  -  1 5 
Chambers,  Matilda  -  -  -  -  52 
Chambers,  Robert  I,  6,  21,  62,  78,  83 
Chamberlayne,  Anne  -  -  -  -  82 
Chamberlayne,  Edward  -  80,  8 1,  82 
Chamberlayne,  Edward  (the  younger)  -  8 1 
Chamberlayne,  Peregrine  Clifford  -  -  8 1 
Chamberlayne,  Susanna  -  -  -  82 
Charlotte,  Queen  7 
Chaucer,  Geoffrey  -  -  -  -  36 
Cheyne,  Charles,  Lord,  Viscount  New- 
haven  -  19,43,44,45 
Cheyne,  Lady  Jane  -  -  3,  19,  43,  44,  45 
Cheyne,  Catherine,  Elizabeth  and  William 

(children  of  Lord  Cheyne)  -      44 

Churchil,  Andrew,  Robert  and  Margaret  78 
Claremont,  Isabel  -  -  -  -  52 
Clarkson,  Abrahall,  also  Gilbert,  John, 

Theodosia  and  William  -         -         -       52 
Clifford,  Richard  82 

Clifford,  Susannah  80 

Clinton,  Henry,  Earl  of  Lincoln  -  -  2 
Coggs,  Sarah  -  -  -  -  -  10 
Collins,  John,  also  Elizabeth  and  Sarah  -  79 
Collins,  Sarah  and  William  -  -  52 

Colvile,  Richard  -  30,  31 

Colvile,  Sara  -        -        -    29,  30,  31 


ii 
83 
56 
56 
9 
57 


•  :-i;e,     also     Joseph     and 

Cooper.  Henry    - 

.   R.'     -       -       -       -       - 
Cr.it  ford,  Christopher- 
CMU  ford,  John    -  _         _ 

:v   David         -         - 
ount     - 

pin,  Anne  and  Capt.  Daniel]   - 
i.  r. 

.larquis  de,  see  Caumont. 
CuUiford.  Anne,  and  Capt.   Richard      - 


,  Gregory  Fiennes,  Lord       10,  46,  47,  48 
Dacre,  Anne,  Lady  '  2,  46,  47,  48 

Damarr,  Thomasin  27,  28 

Daniel,  Capt.  William  -  51 

Daviet,  Rev.  R.  H.  2,8,85 

Davis,  Richard  -         5 

Deacon,  William  -       1 1 

Denver,  John       -  -       15 

Denyer,  Martha  -  15,  60 

Derby,  William,  Earl  of,  see  Stanley. 
Dillon,  the  Hon.  Conrad       -         -         -       J> 
Dodd,  Benjamin  -         -       50 

Doody,  Richard  -  -         -       65 

Dowdall,  Anna  Maria  -  -       59 

Drake,  Capt.  Maurice  -  9 

Drummond,     Elizabeth,     also    George, 

George  Hay,  John  and  Marianne  41 

Dudley,  John,  Duke  of  Northumberland 

34.  37,  38 

Dudley,  Ambrose,  Earl  of  Warwick          37,  38 
Dudley,     Catherine,     see     Huntingdon, 

Countess  of. 

Dudley,  Charles  -  37 

Dudley,  Guildford  37,  38 

Dudley,  Harry  (elder  and  younger)  37,  38 

Dudley,  John,  Lord  Lisle  and  Earl  of 

Warwick  37,  38 

Dudley,  Mary,  see  Sidney. 
Dudley,  Margaret,  Kat'yn  and  Tcmperanes     37 
Dudley,  Robert,  Earl  of  Leicester  37,  38 

Durneld.  Ann,  also  Samuel  and  Thomas        69 
Duffield,  Samuel  -         -         -         -       68 


Page 

Erasmus  ~       26 

Evans,  Egerton,  also  Richard  and  Diana       76 
Eyre,  Francis  66 

Eyre,  Sarah  66 


Edward  the  Confessor  -  i 

l;.d ward  VI  16 

Edwards,  Sydcnham  Teast  5 1 

Eggleton,  David  -  1 1 

Elderton,  John    -                           -  -       57 
Elers,  Carew,  also  George,  Peter,  William 

and  William  Shrubb  40 

Elizabeth,  consort  of  Henry  VII  -  18 

Hi/.abeth,  Queen  16 

Ellsmere,  Sloane  -  -  5,  85 

88 


10 

-     25 

II 

-  8,  ii 


Farquharson,  Maj.  Victor 
Faulkner,  J. 
Faulkner,  William 
Fielder,  John 
Fiennes,  Gregory,  see  Dacre. 
Firmin,  Nathaniel  and  Mrs.  -  59 

Fletcher  (servant  to  Dr.  Hamey)    -  10 

Flight,  B.  I.,  also  }.  and  Thomas    •  2 

de  la  Force,  Marshal,  see  Caumont. 
Forrest,  Samuel  -  78 

Francis,  William,  also  Honour  and  Eliza- 
beth   -  68 
Franklin,  Elizabeth  and  Thomas    •  58 
Frankling,  Ester  and  Thomas  7 
Friend,  Elizabeth,  see  Guilford. 
Friend,  Roger                                                       45 


Gaskell,John  69 

George,  Mr.  55 

Gibbon,  Gervase  28 
Gibbon,  Grissel,  sec  Lawrence.' 

Gilbert,  Samuel  -  70 

Gilbert,  Jane  70 

Glass,  John  65 

Gorges,  Arthur   -  35-  36 

Gorges,  LJame  Mary  35 

Gorges,  Sir  Arthur  -  2.  --,.  34,  3^ 

Gough,  Luke  and  Thomas  •                             7 
Grandison,  Lady  Mary,  see  Gorges. 

Grandison,  William,  Lord  35 

Grey,  Lady  Jane  38 

Griffith,  John  Cory  41) 

Grove,  Elizabeth  76 

Guildford,  Sir  Edward  37 

Guildford,  Sir  Richard  37 

Guildford,  Lady  Jane,  see  Northumber- 
land, Duchess  of. 
Guilford,  Anne,  also  Charles,  Judeth  and 

Richard  45 

Guilford,  Abigail  45 

Guilford,  Abigal  45 

Guilford,  Elizabeth  45 

Gyles,  |ohn  and  Rebecca  74 


Hallett,  William  -  1 1 

Hamey,  Baldwin,  M.D.          -    i,  5,  10,  22,  23 
Hamey,  Baldwin,  M.D.  (the  Elder)  22 

Hamilton,  Alexander  and  Jennett  -  46 

Harris,  William   -  80 


Page 

I  larrison,  George  II 

Hart,  George  and  William  39 

1  l.iuhett,  Charles  9 

I  le.itly,  David  50 

Henry  VI]  1 8 

Henry  VIII  -     16,  21,  2, 

Hergest,  John  70 

Hewitt,  Henry  IO,  32 

Hewitt,  Margaret  32 

Hill,  Hester  and  Thomas  53 

Hoblyn,  Thomas  1 1 

Hodge,  John  71 

Hodsden,  Mary  Ann  57 

Holbein,  Hans  3 

Holl,  Edward  14 

Holme,  Randle    -  6 

Horton,  Catherine  54 

Hoskin,  Capt.  C.  J.  \\  .  9 

Howard,  Edmund  6 

I  lowcll,  Sarah  72 

Howell,  Jehu  and  Susanna  77 

Hungerford,  Robert  16 

Hungerford,  Thomas   -  -15,16,22 

Hungerford,  Ursula  -    15,16,22 
Huntingdon,  Catherine,  Countess  of    34,  37,  38 

Huntingdon,  Earl  of  38 

Hunton,  Samuel-  10 

Hurd,  Thomas  and  Frederics  14 

Hutchins,  John  and  Elizabeth  58,  59 

Hutchins,  John    -  59 

Hyde,  Maria  19 


Innes,  Sarah,  see  Eyre. 


Jacob,  Stephen  Wheeler  and  Mary  71 

James,  Henry  39 

Janaway,  Thomas  5 
Jennings,  Jane,  see  Gilbert. 

Jervoise,  F.  H.  T.  22 

Jervoise,  Richard  1 6,  20,  21,  22 

Jervoise,  Winifred  1 6,  22 

Johnson,  Israel  1 1 

Jones,  Ann  and  Thomas  -       72 

Jousselin,  William  10 


Kclry,  Franses  Arabella 
Kingsley,  Rev.  C. 


Lafield,  Elizabeth  and  Charles 
Lambe,  John  Wells 
Larchin,  Charles 
Lawrence,  Mrs.  Francis 


59 

-  8,  85 


Page 

Lawrence,  Dame  Grissel  -    28,  5^.  ;d 

Lawrence,  1  lenry  55 

Lawrence,  Sir  John  25,  28,  29,  55,  56 

Lawrence,  Sara,  see  Colvilt. 

Lawrence,  Thomas       —  2,  29,  30,  31 

Leake,  Joseph      -  —       1 1 

Leaver,  Elizabeth  59 

Leet,  J.  H.  '8 

Leicester,  Robt.,  Earl  of,  see  Dudley. 

Lewer,  Henry  2 

Lincoln,  Earl  of,  see  Clinton. 

Lindsay,  Elizabeth  56 

Lindsay,  Thomas  56 

Lisle,  John,  Lord,  see  Dudley. 

Littleton,  Adam-  I,  19,  45,  85 

Long,  Catharine  and  Thomas  19 

Lowe,  Humphry  and  Mary  -  66 

Lowfeild,  Ann  and  Thomas  -  -      49 

Lussan,  Henry  54 

Luttrell,  Sara,  Francis  and  Narcissus  58 


McCannon,  William  -       64 

Madox,  Oliver  -         4 

Mahon,  Catharine  40 

Mann,  John,  and  family  74 

Mann,  Richard    -  2 

Marriott,  Robert  H 

Mary,  Queen  16 

Mason,  Elizabeth  66 

Massenger,  William  -  5,  84 
Mayerne,  Elizabeth,  see  Caumont. 

Mayerne,  Sir  Theodore  24 

Milborne,    Ann,    also    Christopher  and 

Clayton  83 

Miles,  William  39 

Millard,  Richard  II 

Miller,  Charles  and  Philip  27,  62 

Milman,  Sir  Francis  39 

Milman,  Sir  William    -  38,  39 

Milman,  Lady  39 

Milman,  J.  D.,  C.  D.,  and  Frances  39 

Moncrieff,  William  52 

More,  Alicia  and  Joanna  26 

More,  Margaret  -  27 

More,  Sir  John    -  25 

More,  Sir  Thomas         -   2,  3,  24,  25,  26,  27,  48 

de  Morgan,  W.  F.  31 

Morgan,  Anne  12 

Morrell,  Frances  and  Jane  Dorrell  60 

Morris,  Barbara  and  Benjamin  69 

Munden  76 


68 

49 

10      Needham,  Hon.  Francis 
56      Neild,  Reginald  John 


2 

4' 


44,  45 


William  Duke  "I 

• 

\nn  and  John  Christian  '>f 

Newtham,  Either  and  Richard  -      65 

Northumberland,  Jane,  DncheM  "'  ^,36,37,38 
Northumberland,  John,  Duke  of   -    34,  37,  38 


Odd.im,  Kli/abcth  65 

Oder,  John  71 

Onghton,  II.  1 1 

!.  Jane  and  William  -       67 


Mary  and  Capt.  -  72 

Palmer,  Alice  -     .  23 

Palmer,  Ralph  -    10,  22,  23 

Parkins  74 

Patterson, —  -         -       64 
Paulet,  William,  Marquis  of  Winchester         2 

Pearsall,  Rev.  John  49 

Pennant,  David,  also  John  and  Sara  03 

Perry,  J.  _  8,  u 

Peshall,  Humphry  48 

Plowman,  George  1 1 

Powell,  Elizabeth  and  Henry  40,  41 

Price,  John  and  Margaret  78,  79 

Price,  Richard  -       1 1 

Putland,  Thomas  54 


Raper,  Henry  and  Katharine  -       46 

Rattray,  David  and  Mary  -       76 

Ray,  Nicolas                              -  -         -       54 

Read,  Edward  and  Mary  42 

Reid,  Alexander,  Frances  and  family  73 

Rhodes,  Christopher  and  Joanna   -  73 

Richards,  Edward  8 

Richards,  Hannah  -       65 

Roberts,  Lord,  Baron  of  Truro  59 
Rogers,  Elizabeth,  see  Buck. 

Rogers,  Humphrey       -  42 

Koper,  Margaret  27 

Rose,  Cornelius  and  Margaret  61 

Rowley,  Margaret  and  Thomas  -        -       73 

Rush,  Catherine  and  Mary    -  i^. 

Rush,    Eloise,   George,   Henry,  Honour, 

John  and  Montagu  1 

Rush,  the  Rev.  John    -  '  5 

Rush,  Henrietta  and  Samuel  _         _ 


85 
70 


Page 

Sandes,  I  r-ula,  .'/•<•  tiungerford. 

Sande^  Sir  William  is 

S.nulcs,  \\'illi.im.  Lord  15,  16,  18,  zi,  22 

Shalers,  Thou  -  5,  84 

Shoreditch,  John  6 

Sidney,  Sir  Henry  3* 

Sidney, -Mary,  Lady  38 

:e'y,  Sir  Philip  38 

Simmons,  Edward  II 

Simplin,  Thomas  -       1 1 

Skinner,  Anne  17 

Sloane,  Sir  Hans-  5,  76,  77 

Sloane,  Lady  -       77 

Smith,  Samuel    -.  75 

Smith,  Bartholomew  and  Mary  50 

Smith,  Lucy  14 

SP"gg,  John    '  82 

Squire,  Mathew  -  49 

Stafford,  Ann  and  Hugh  20 

Stanley,  Edward  -  19 

Stanley,  Ferdinand  and  Henrietta  32,  33 

Stanley,  Sir  Robert  •    32,  33,  34 

Stanley,  Sarah  77 

Stanley,  William,  Earl  of  D^-rby   -  33 

Stathum,  Winifred,  see  Jervoise. 

Staunton,  Edmund  32 

Stevens,  —  61 

Stewart,  Elizabeth  27 

Stewart,  Thomas  27,28 

Stickney,  John  and  Hannah  -  67 

Sturges,  Rev.  Charles  -  13,  85 

Sutton,  Samuel   -  7z 

Sutton,  Anna  Maria  Powel   -  53 

Sutton,  Capt.  Dawly    -  53 

Swindell,  Ann  and  William  -  -69 


Tate,  Robert  _  72 
Thomas,  Francis  -  60 
Thomas,  Peter  -  64 
Thompson,  Elizabeth  -  57 
Tibbetts,  Elizabeth  -  -  68 
Tombleson,  Thomas  8 
Tooley,  Mary  65 
Trelawny,  Sir  Jonathan,  Bishop  of  Win- 
chester _  _  5 
Truro,  Baron  of,  see  Roberts. 
Tu,lloh,  Anne  and  James  -  68 
Tunstall,  Cuthbert,  Bishop  of  London 

and  Durham  -       25 

Tyndale,  Jane  -        27 


Verren,  Thomas  -        -        -        -        -       1 1 


Sackville,  Anne,  see  Dacre. 

Salter,  Lady 

Sandcs,  Margery,  Lady 

90 


29      Wade,  Bryan  and  Sarah 
1 6,  1 8      Wakelin,  Anne  and  Thomas 


-  60 

-  50 


Page 

Warwick,  K.irN  of,  <,-,-  Dudley. 

\\'aver,  Sir  Henry  and  Cristine  6 

Weever,  John  1 8,  26 

Wellesley,  Hon.  G.  \ .  -  15,  85 

Wheeler,  J.  J.  _ll 

Whitney,  Constance  29 

Wilson,  Richard  -  16 

Wilton,  John  51 

Wilton,  Joseph  and  Anne  14 

Winchester,  Bishops  of  13 


Winchester,  Marquis  of,  see  Paulet. 
Wood,  Abigail,  see  Guilford. 
Woodcock,  Robert        - 
Woodville,  Elizabeth    - 
Woolley,  John     -         - 
Worster,  James    - 
Wybarnd,  John   -        -        - 


Yates,  Robert 


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17,64 
6 

49 
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PLATE  2 


EXTERIOR    FROM    THE    SOUTH-EAST 


PLATE  3 


EXTERIOR    FROM   THE   SOUTH 


PLATE  4 


THE  TOWER    FROM    CHURCH    STREET 


PLATE  5 


EXTERIOR    OF   THE    LAWRENCE   CHAPEL 


PLATE  6 


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PLATE  15 


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PLATE  1 6 


NORTH        ELEVATION 


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WEST        ELEVATION 


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PLATE  18 


PLAN     Or  CLOCK   ROOM 

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PLAN     Of    ROOM 

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PLATE  20 


PLATE  21 


PLATE  22 


STAIRCASE,   NORTH    OF   TOWER 


PLATE  23 


ASHBURNHAM    BELL 


COMMUNION   TABLE 


PLATE  24 


PLATE  25 


FONT 


PLATE  26 


PLATE  27 


HELM    (DACRE)    IN 
MORE   CHAPEL 


PLATE  28 


INSCRIPTION    TO    RINGERS 
IN  TOWER 


PLATE  29 


PULPIT 


CHELSEA  OLD  CHURCH. 


PULPIT. 


PLATE  30 


DETAIL  or  BALUSTER. 


3ECTIOM  or  HANDRAIL. 


ELEVATION. 


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or  KOUI.DWC. 


PLAN. 


PLATE  31 


WEATHER    VANE 


PLATE  32 


MONUMENTS   ON    EAST   AND    NORTH 
WALLS    OF   CHANCEL 


PLATE  33 


WALL  TABLET  TO  LUCY 
SMITH  £r  ANNE  WILToN 
(2) OVER  ARCHKD  LOCKER 


PLATE  34 


MONUMENT  TO  THOMAS  HUNGERFORD  (13) 


PLATE  35 


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PLATE  37. 


CHEL5EA  OLD  CHURC 

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ELEVATION 

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LITTLETON     MONUMENT. 


PLATE  38 


Hie  prope  sitwn  eft  Corpus 
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TOMB  OF  EDMUND,  LORD  BRAY  (16) 


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TOMB  OF   RICHARD  JERVOISE  (23) 


PLATE  42 


JERVOISE   TOMB,    FROM   A    DRAWING    IN    THE 
COLLECTION  OF  SIR  EDWARD    COATES,  BT. 


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PLATE  44 


TABLETS  TO  DR.  BALDWIN 
HAMEY  (24)  AND  RALPH 
PALMER  (25) 


PLATE  45 


TOMB    OF   SIR   THOMAS 
MORE  (29) 


PLATE  46 


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TABLET  TO   ELIZABETH   STEWART   (32) 


PLATE  47 


Hei-e  lyes  the  Body  of 

ELIZABETH  STEWART 

Wife  of  THOMAS  STEWART  of  Barbados 
Merch' 

who  departed  th«  life  the  K)* 

Day  of  Febniaiy  )7)7 
Aged  ,j$  years 

Here  al»o  lye*  the  Body  of  tfie  fiid 

THOMAS  STEWART 

Wfio  dejiai^ed  tliis  life  the  1d 
Day  ol'  November  JJM 

A god    5 6 

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E1KABETH  S'lTIWUlT 

.lied  April  aOl-  1J58 


ELEVATION 


PLAN 


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PLATE  48 


TABLET  TO  SIR  JOHN   LAWRENCE  (33) 


PLATE  49 


PLATE  49 


TABLE! 


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SIR.  JOHN  LAURENCE 


FULL   SIZE  DETAIL 


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PLATE  50 


MONUMENT   OF   THOMAS    LAWRENCE  (34) 


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PLATE  52 


MONUMENT   OF   SARA   COLVILE   (35) 


PLATE 


53 


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PLATE  54 


TOMB    OF    SIR    ROBERT    STANLEY    (40) 


PLATE  55 


PLATE  56 


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PLATE  57 


BRASS  PLATES  FROM  TOMB  OF 
SIR  ARTHUR  GORGES  (43) 


PLATE  58 


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PLATE  59 


GORGES  TOMB    (44),   FROM   A   DRAWING   IN 
THE  CHELSEA   PUBLIC   LIBRARY 


PLATE  60 


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INSCRIPTION    FROM  THE  TOMB  OF 
ARTHUR   GORGES  (44) 


PLATE  6 1 


PART  OF    MONUMENT  TO  THE    DUCHESS 
OF    NORTHUMBERLAND  (45) 


PLATE  62 


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INSCRIPTION    ON    TOMB    OF   THE 
DUCHESS  OF  NORTHUMBERLAND  (45) 


PLATE  63 


THE  DUCHESS  OF  NORTHUMBERLAND 
AND   HER  DAUGHTERS    (BRASS) 


PLATE  64 


inn 


NORTHUMBERLAND  MONUMENT,  FROM  A 
DRAWING  IN  THE  COLLECTION  OF  SIR 
EDWARD  COATES,  BT. 


PLATE  65 


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THE  NORTHUMBERLAND  TOMB,  FROM  THE 
LANSDOWNE  MSS.  (BELOW  IS  THE  DACRE 
TOMB) 


PLATE  66 


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PLATE  67 


TABLET  TO  SIR  WILLIAM  MILMAN  (46) 


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PLATE  68 


PLATE  69 


TABLET  TO  HENRY  & 
ELIZABETH  POWELL  (52) 


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THE-POWELL-  MON 
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E-C-NIvTBET 
MERT-ETDELT 


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PLATE  72 


IRON    RAILING  TO   THE 
CHEYNE    MONUMENT  (57) 


PLATE  73 


MONUMENT   TO    LADY    JANE   CHEYNE    (57) 


PLATE  74 


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WALL    TABLET    TO    THE    MEMORY   OF 
•  RICHARD    QUILFORD  •  A-D-  709  • 


PLATE  76 


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PEET. 


EG..COOKE.       MCNS.  ET  PELT. 
!»•' 


PLATE  77 


HAMILTON   TABLET  (60) 


PLATE  78 


PLATE  79 


MONUMENT   TO    LORD    AND    LADY   DACRE   (61) 


PLATE  80 


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DETAIL   OF   CENTRAL   ARCH    IN 
DACRE   TOMB   (61) 


PLATE  8  i 


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PLATE  82 


IRON    RAILINGS   TO    THE 
DACRE   TOMB  (61) 


PLATE  83 


3nD«H 


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DRAWING    OF   THE    DACRE   TOMB   (61)    IN   THE 
COLLECTION  OF  SIR  EDWARD  COATES,  BT. 


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PLATE  85 


TABLET   TO    HESTER    HILL   (82) 


PLATE  86 


CHELSEA  OLD  CHURCH 

WALL  MONUMENT    IN  THE   TOWER.    PORCH  CD 


PLAM 


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of  y  above  named  rf. 
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ENTAbLATU^E 
FULL  SIZE  DETA1L 


HALF  PLAN    UODKJNQ  UP        HALF  PLAN    LOOKJNQ  PCWN 


SCALE     Of 


PLATE  87 


MONUMENTS  TO  TWO  CURATORS 
OF  THE  PHYSIC  GARDEN,  WILLIAM 
ANDERSON  (LEFT)  AND  PHILIP 
MILLER  (RIGHT) 


PLATE  88 


MONUMENT  TO  SIR  HANS  SLOANE  (166) 


DA 
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